Suzukiite
Kamibishi, Hishi village, Kiryu city, Gunma pref., Japan
Field of view: 5 mm. Suzukiite associated with rhodonite. The green prisms with a vitreous luster are suzukiite. The surrounding pink parts exhibiting perfect cleavage are rhodonite. The transparent parts with a vitreous luster are quartz. The black parts are manganese dioxide formed by weathering.
Recovered from a chert-hosted bedded manganese deposit subjected to Albite-Epidote-hornfels facies contact metamorphism.
The first suzukiite in the world was described from this location in 1982.
Other localities
- Mogurazawa Mine (Bedded Mn, Prismatic)
- Tanohata Mine (Bedded Mn, Tabular)