Japan
15003 D23-1 Yugawaralite, Yugawara Hot Spring, Yugawara, Ashigarashimo District, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
White veins with colourless crystals. Ex Allan and Elvire Mortimer. Ex Neil Hubbard. Ex Hori Mineralogy. Measures 32x26x18mm. Type Locality.
15045 D23-1 Hydroxylellestadite, Diopside, Chichibu mining district, Nakatsugawa, Ohtaki-mura, Chichibu City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Very pale massive hydroxylellestadite with small dots of green diopside. Ex Hiromi Yamasaki Collection. Type Locality.
20132 Stibnite, Pyrite, Akadani Mine, Fukui City, Fukui Prefecture, Japan
Stibnite as small veins frozen in quartz with a couple of small pyrite crystals. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat GTJ2 Scheelite, Andradite, Ferberite, Otome mine, Kurobera, Kofu City, Kinpuzan mining district, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan
Labelled as Otome Mine, a name applied generically to material from many different mines in the Kinpuzan mining district. Scheelite specimens in Mindat appear to be from hydrothermal veins, whereas this specimen is clearly from a skarn. There appears to be a small area of ferberite adjacent to the scheelite...
ncat JPK1 Hokkaidoite, Opal, Shikaribetsu Lake, Shikaoi (Shikaoi-Chō), Kato District, Tokachi Subprefecture, Hokkaidō Prefecture, Japan
Type Locality. Yellow-fluorescent hokkaidoite in opal that fluoresces in a range of colours. Close up is under longwave and 9mm across. The other two are iPhone photos. The one that is more pink bottom right is LW. The more blue is SW.
ncat GTJ3 59 Anorthite, Miyake Island, Miyake Subprefecture, Tokyo Metropolis, Japan
Three pieces in a round container. Ex Ueno Scientific Co.
0452 Muscovite, Cordierite, Indialite, Daimonjiyama, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture, Kinki Region, Honshu Island, Japan
Acquired by Jake Slago from Alfredo Petrov at the 2013 Tucson Show. Rocks and Minerals magazine Jul-Aug 2006: The third sentence in this nine page article reads: As with the real blossoms, these stones, known as sakura ishi (cherry blossom stones) are also revered by mineralogists and mineral collectors in...
15038 D23-1 Hokkaidoite, Opal, Shikaribetsu Lake, Shikaoi (Shikaoi-Chō), Kato District, Tokachi Subprefecture, Hokkaidō Prefecture, Japan
Highly fluoresent yellow inclusions of hokkaidoite in opal that fluoresces pink and and purplish blue. Ex Hiromi Yamasaki Collection. Type Locality. Specimen measures 17mm. Photo under longwave UV.
15014 D23-1 Itoigawaite, Jadeite, Oyashirazu Beach, Ōmi, Itoigawa City, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
Sliced, polished sample, showing pale blue vein of itoigawaite in jadeite matrix. Ex Andrew Hodgson Collection. Type Locality. Width of specimen 40mm.