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Hyogo, Hyōgo

Akenobe tin mine

Mineral locality Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also reported: cassiterite, stannite.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Polymetallic tin-tungsten-copper veins mined for a millennium until 1987

Renowned specimen locality in Japanese mineralogy.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

old workings

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