Cerussite
Goka Mine
Goka, Higashi-shirakawa city, Kamo county, Gifu pref., Japan
This locality is closed to collecting.
Field of view: 5 mm. A cerussite crust. The reniform white crust is cerussite.
Recovered from a cerussite vein in a meteoric oxidation zone of a moderate-temperature hydrothermal deposit vein associated with granite porphyry, a part of a parallel dike swarm formed at the last stage of a caldera complex activity in the accretionary complex.
Cerussite from this location was described in 1979.
Other localities
- Goka Mine (Hydrothermal, Reniform)
- Kisan-mori Mine (Hydrothermal, Pseudocubic)
- Mikawa Mine (Hydrothermal, Prismatic)
- Nakatatsu Mine (Hydrothermal Skarn, Prismatic)
- Kamioka Mine (Pneumatolytic Skarn, Vein)