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Kosaka kuroko mines
Mineral locality Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Crystals and mineralsAlso reported: sphalerite, galena, barite, kuroko ore textures.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Type district of black-ore kuroko massive sulfides, mined from the Meiji era to 1990
Foundational kuroko locality in ore-deposit literature.
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
old workings
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