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Japan, Hokkaido

Toyoha Mine, Japan

Mineral locality Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: galena, sphalerite, pyrargyrite, rhodochrosite.

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

Why this spot

Rockhounding locality: polymetallic epithermal vein

Historic Ag-Pb-Zn mine documented for silver sulfosalts and rare minerals.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Old workings, remote

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