Sussexite
Yozawa, Akiruno city, Tokyo, Japan
Field of view: 5 mm. Sussexite associated with rhodochrosite. The columnar groups of white fibers are sussexite. The dark brown basement composed of fine grains exhibiting perfect cleavage is rhodochrosite.
Recovered from a mudstone-hosted bedded manganese deposit subjected to Zeolite facies metamorphism.
Other localities
- Shintani Mine (Bedded Mn, Prismatic)
- Kurihara Mine (Bedded Mn, Prismatic)