Aragonite
Kanayamadani valley
Omi, Itoigawa city, Niigata pref., Japan
Field of view: 50 mm. Aragonite crystals. The translucent white bladed crystals are aragonite. The grayish-green basement is serpentinite.
Recovered from an open space of serpentinite in Oeyama Ophiolite.
Aragonite from this location was described in 1982.
Other localities
- Choshi (Andesite, Pink)
- Onara (Serpentinite, Tabular)
- Kanayamadani valley (Serpentinite, Tabular)
- Shiraki (Serpentinite, Prismatic)
- Yoshikawa Mine (Serpentinite, Fibrous)
- Akatani Mine (Metasomatic Skarn, Prismatic)
- Taguchi Mine (Bedded Mn, Acicular)