The reinvestigation of the titaniferous pyroxene from Shisaka-jima in the Ryoke metamorphic zone has revealed that the mineral was identified with titanian fassaite by its color and chemistry. The fassaite bearing dark crystalline aggregate of lenticular or nodular form in saccharodial limestone is composed of fassaite, spinel, magnetite, and ilmenite, as accessory phlogopite, amphibole, pyrrhotite, apatite, and titanite. It has equigranular granoblastic texture.
Two samples of the purplish brown fassaite were analyzed with EPMA. The result shows that the aluminium contents replacing silicon in tetrahedral site are 0.173 and 0.188 atomic percents on the basis of 0=6.000, and the mineral contains 9 mole percents of Ca-tschermackite. The green spinel, magnetite, and ilmenite were also analyzed with EPMA, and the conditions of formation have been disccused.
The occurrence suggests that the spinel-fassaite rock was derived from an aluminium rich sediment like laterite through the metamorphism of the amphibolite facies.
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