Sérandite
Shiromaru, Okutama city, Nishi-Tama county, Tokyo, Japan
Width: 5mm. A group fo sérandite. The group of tabular pale pink crystals exhibiting perfect cleavage is sérandite. The massive white part is albite or celsian.
Recovered from a block of albite or celsian in a chert-hosted bedded manganese deposit subjected to Zeolite facies metamorphism.
Sérandite from this location was described in 1987.
Other localities
- Shiromaru Mine (Bedded Mn, Tabular)
- Tanohata Mine (Bedded Mn, Fibrous)