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Sulphur

Noboribetsu-Jigoku Valley

Noboribetsu-Onsen village, Noboribetsu city, Iburi branch, Hokkaido, Japan

Source for sulphur and Sulphuric acid

Sulphur

Width: 20 mm. Sulphur recovered from a explosion crator. Yellow parts are sulphur, and some pyramidal crystals of sulphur are observed in open spaces. The white host is altered andesitic tuff.

Recovered from the altered zone around fumaroles of an explosion crator. Formed in less than 10 years.

Sulphur from this location was described in 1889.

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