Sphalerite
Shimo-Terashima, Shioya city, Shioya county, Tochigi pref., Japan
Source for Zinc, Cadmium, and Sulfuric acid.
Field of view: 10 mm. Sphalerite in quartz. The yellowish-green to greenish-brown grains are sphalerite. The surrounding translucent white parts are gangue quartz.
Recovered from a quartz vein in a moderate-temperature hydrothermal deposit associated with a rhyolite dike in welded tuff. Formed in the middle Miocene (15 Ma).
Other localities
- Kamioka Mine (Pneumatolytic Skarn, Granular)
- Chichibu Mine (Hydrothermal Skarn, Twin)
- Nakatatsu Mine (Hydrothermal Skarn)
- Kawai Mine (Hydrothermal Skarn, Massive)
- Hagidaira Mine (Mn Skarn, Granular)
- Arakawa Mine (Hydrothermal, Transparent)
- Kawazu Mine (Hydrothermal, Granular)
- Mikawa Mine (Hydrothermal, Granular)
- Sayama Mine (Hydrothermal, Veinlet)
- Manju Mine (Hydrothermal, Massive)
- Hikida Mine (Hydrothermal, Granular)
- Agenosawa Mine (Hydrothermal, Massive)