Mine detail: Akenobe Mine

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Location:	Hyogo, Japan, Asia
Lat / long:	35.21533, 134.68216
dep_id:	10021659
mrds_id:	DE00347
Commodity type:	metallic
Major mineral:	Tin, Tungsten, Copper, Zinc, Lead, Silver
Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Vein
Production size:	Production occurred
Development status:	Producer
Reporter:	Pasitschniak, Anna
hrock_unit:	Tamba
hrock_type:	Diorite,Slate,Greenstone,Sandstone,Chert
Structure:	Mesozoic-Cenozoic Orogenic Belt
tectonic:	Quartz Veins Cut Folded Permo-Carboniferous Sedimentary Rocks Above A Suspected Late Cretaceous-Early Tertiary Granite Pluton
Year first produced:	1936
disc_yr:	1909
References:	Deposit:: IMAI, H., KATAYAMA, N., AND FUKUOKA, I., 1970, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE AKENOBE MINE AND THE NINGYO-TOGE URANIUM DEPOSITS. INTERNATIONAL MINERALOGICAL ASSOCIATION, 7TH GENERAL MEETING, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF THE GENESIS OF ORE DEPOSITS, TOKYO-KYOTO MEETING, GUIDEBOOK 8, EXCURSION B4, P. 4-22. Deposit:: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS BRANCH, MINERAL RESOURCES OF JAPAN, FOREIGN MINERALS SURVEY, VOL. 2, NO. 5, OCT. 1945, P. 43, 102-4. Deposit:: SHIBATA, K., AND ISHIHARA, S., 1974, K-AR AGES OF THE MAJOR TUNGSTEN AND MOLYBDENUM DEPOSITS IN JAPAN, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, VOL. 69, NO. 8, DEC. 1974, P. 1207-1214. Deposit:: IMAI, H., LEE, M.S., IIDA, K., FUJIKI, Y., AND TAKENOUCHI, S., 1975, GEOLOGIC STRUCTURE AND MINERALIZATION OF THE XENOTHERMAL VEIN-TYPE DEPOSITS IN JAPAN, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, VOL. 70, NO. 4, P. 647-676. Deposit:: UNITED STATES, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, BUSINESS AND DEFENSE SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, 1956, MATERIALS SURVEY: TUNGSTEN, WASHINGTON, D.C., G.P.O., DECEMBER 1956, N.P. Deposit:: LI, K.C. AND WANG, C.Y., 1955, TUNGSTEN, THIRD EDITION, NEW YORK, REINHOLD PUBLISHING CORPORATION, P. 91. Production:: IMAI ET AL, 1975.