Once you reach Coal Town, a whole new world will be opened up to you inShin-Chan: Shiro And The Coal Town, both literally and figuratively. There are new characters to meet, new missions to do, and new materials to find, one of which is several different types of minerals.

You’ll mostly need them for completing Invention Challenges, but sometimes they’re needed for sub-missions, make for a useful item to trade for something you may need more, like scrap parts, and can even be used as trolley part materials. Twelve isn’t many, but all of them are needed to complete the game.

View of two pages of the compendium showing four different minerals in Shin-Chan: Shiro And The Coal Town.

All Mineral Locations

There are12 different Mineralsto find, and they’remostly found in Coal Townonce you unlock the town, and like wild vegetables, you’ll oftenfind them as sparkling spotswhile you’re exploring the town.

If you’re lucky,Shiro can also sniff them outupon arriving on a screen, butsearching for them yourselfis a better way of gathering them early on until youunlock the Sundries Shopand theBulletin Board for Coal Town.

Shin-Chan trading a crawfish for jade at the Coal Town Bulletin Board in Shin-Chan: Shiro And The Coal Town.

Completing certain main missionsalso unlocksnew minerals for you to buyfrom the Sundries Drop as well:

You can onlybuy three of each mineral per dayat the Sundries Shop before it’s out of stock, but the inventory will restock the next day.

Beating andreaching certain high scores at Trolley Race Coursesalso rewards you with alarge amount of minerals, especially therarer and more expensive oneslike Tourmaline and Jade.

While rare, Minerals canalso be found in Unbent Villagelater in the game once you’vecompleted another main mission,Thank You Boiling Much, but this islimited to just fourof them: Placer Gold, Raw Copper, Agate, and Quartz.

Obtained from completing certain sub-missions, trading, or trolley race rewards.

Obtain from completing certain sub-missions, or trolley race rewards.