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n. (context mineralogy English) A rare vanadate mineral.
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Tokyoite is a rare barium manganese vanadate mineral with the chemical formula: Ba(Mn,Fe)OH(VO). It is the manganese analogue of the iron rich gamagarite and the barium analogue of the lead vanadate, brackebuschite.
It occurs in low-grade metamorphosed sedimentary manganese ore deposits associated with hyalophane, braunite and tamaite.
It was first reported for an occurrence in the Shiromaru Mine, Okutama, Tama district, Tokyo Prefecture, Kanto Region, Honshu Island, Japan and approved by the IMA in 2003. It has been found in two mines in Italy and one in Japan, for which it was named.
Usage examples of "tokyoite".
Through them, one had a spectacular view across the river to the futuristic Flamme d'Or, the Phillippe Starke-designed building of black glass, a kind of tetrahedron on acid, surmounted by a vaguely flamelike shape derisively christened by Tokyoites "the Golden Turd.