Spessartine

Kusagyu, Kanuma city, Tochigi pref., Japan

Field of view: 30 mm. Spessartine associated with rhodonite. The fine transparent pale brown crystals are spessartine. The massive pale pink basement is aggregate of fine quartz and rhodonite crystals.

Recovered from a chert-hosted bedded manganese deposit subjected to Hornblende-hornfels facies contact metamorphism.

Spessartine from this location was described in 1960.

Other localities

List of Japanese spessartine localities

Wada pass (Rhyolite, Euhedral)
Hagidaira mine (Mn skarn, White)
Kyurazawa mine (Mn skarn, Euhedral)
Oashi mine (Mn skarn, Vein)
Taguchi mine (Bedded Mn, AM facies)
Gozaisho mine (Bedded Mn, EA facies)