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Fluorite

Takatori Mine

Suzugouya, Shirosato city, Higashi-ibaraki county, Ibaraki pref., Japan

Fluorite

Field of view: 10 mm. Massive fluorite. The massive pale green part is fluorite. The surrounding white parts are gangue quartz.

Recovered from a quartz vein of a pneumatolytic deposit formed by S-type (Ilmenite-series) granite. Formed in the early Paleocene (65 Ma).

Fluorite from this location was described in 1915.

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