Yoshimuraite (type locale)

Taguchi mine, Shidara, Aichi, Honshu Island, Japan
Miniature, 3.9 x 1.9 x 0.8 cm
Start Time: 10/14/2011 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 10/20/2011 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

An old reference piece with small orange-brown crystals of the very rare barium manganese titanium silicate, which has also a phosphate group stuck in there somehow. This is an old mine, now long abandoned, which was once the source for the deep gemmy red pyroxmangite crystals from Japan

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