Shimazakiite 

Fuka Mine, Bitchu-cho, Takahashi, Honshu Island, Japane

One locality mineral Shimazakiite is a new calcium-borate mineral, forms white masses, in association with black sulfide inclusion (possibly chalcocite),purple tiny henmilite (unusual color) and minor takedaite. Very rare!.

The specimen size 0.9 cm x 0.7 cm x 0.3 cm 

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I’m a professional geologist/mineralogist, with analytical background. Many of my minerals were checked by x-ray diffraction and energy dispersive spectrometry. Some of my specimens comes with the documentation of the analysises.

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