Mine detail: Nakatatsu Zn - Pb - Ag Mine

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Location: Fukui, Japan, Asia
Lat / long: 36.0653, 136.61544
dep_id: 10089347
mrds_id: W018911
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Zinc, Silver, Lead
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Medium ammount of material produced
Development status: Producer
ore: Chalcopyrite, Galena, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite
gangue: Epidote, Garnet, Wollastonite
orebody_fm: IRREGULAR CHIMNEY - LIKE
ore_ctrl: Bedding Planes, Faults, Especially At Contact Between Intrusives And Skarn - Limestone
Reporter: Schruben, Paul G.
hrock_unit: Skarn, Limestone
hrock_type: Skarn (Tactite),Limestone
Year first produced: 1894
References:
  • Deposit:: UNITED NATIONS, 1953, DEVELOPMENT OF MINERAL RESOURCES IN ASIA AND THE FAR EAST; UNITED NATIONS MINERAL RESOURCES DEVEL. SERIES, NO. 2 P. 331
  • Deposit:: SHIMAZAKI, H., 1975, THE RATIOS OF CU/ZN - PB OF PYROMETASOMATIC DEPOSITS IN JAPAN AND THEIR GENETICAL IMPLICATIONS; ECON. GEOL. V. 70 P. 717 - 724
  • Reserve-Resource:: E/MJ INTL. DIR. 1975 P.
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