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Ioujima / Naoshima? no - Inakuraishi Mine, Hokkaido (inesite)

Mineral locality Documented siteProhibited, look only

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: Pink inesite, rhodochrosite.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Mn-bearing hydrothermal veins

Classic Japanese inesite locality

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