ominelitenoun · 2002
Well attestedA blue borosilicate from a mountain that has been closed to women for over a thousand years as a Shugendō training ground.
Yoshikuni Hiroi, Edward Grew and a large team described ominelite in 2002 from a porphyritic Miocene granite exposed along the Misen River at Tenkawa in Yoshino, Nara Prefecture, in the Ōmine Mountains. It was the first natural iron dominant counterpart of grandidierite, a mineral otherwise known mainly from Madagascar. A second occurrence later turned up in the Bohemian Massif.
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