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Yoshimuraite
- Taguchi mine
- Shidara
- Aichi Prefecture
- Japan
- 5.1 × 3.8 × 2.2 cm – Miniature specimen (fits into a 5 cm cube)
Yoshimuraite is a complex barium manganese titanium silicate phosphate; it is a member of the bafertisite group, itself part of the seidozerite supergroup (Sokolova & Cámara, 2017). The mineral name honors Professor Toyofumi Yoshimura (1905-1990), mineralogist at Kyushu University, who specialized in manganese deposits (Watanabe et al., 1961).
Yoshimuraite forms brown grains to 2 mm in an altered mass of rhodonite and quartz with minor dark green katophorite. Somewhat friable. From the collection of E.R. Laskowski (1949-2020), a mining engineer who retired to Tucson, Arizona. A label from Mineralogical Research Company also accompanies the specimen.
Price: $75
Item code: MS1978
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