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Hyogo, Hyōgo
Akenobe tin mine
Mineral locality Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Crystals and minerals
Nails and fittingsAlso 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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