Strontino-orthojoaquinite
Kanayamadani valley
Omi, Itoigawa city, Niigata pref., Japan
Field of view: 2 mm. A crystal of strontio-orthojoaquinite. The transparent yellow prism with a vitreous luster is strontio-orthojoaquinite. The surrounding translucent white parts are albite.
Recovered from an open space of an albitite, a tectonic block in Oeyama Ophiolite.
The first strontio-orthojoaquinite in the world was described from this location in 1974.