Mine detail: Hitura Nickel Deposit

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Location: Finland, Europe
Lat / long: 63.93185, 25.00304
dep_id: 10039056
mrds_id: M046586
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Nickel, Copper
Minor mineral: Platinum, Palladium, Silver, Cobalt
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Producer
ore: Chalcopyrite, Cobaltite, Cubanite, Gersdorffite, Graphite, Hessite, Ilmenite, Niccolite, Pentlandite, Pyrrhotite, Sperrylite, Sphalerite
gangue: Antigorite, Chlorite, Dolomite, Talc
orebody_fm: TUBE - LIKE VERTICAL BODY
alteration: Serpentinization
Reporter: Page, Norman J.
hrock_type: Peridotite
Structure: Svecokarelidic Folded Region
discr: Geological Survey Of Finland
References:
  • Deposit:: HAKLI, ET AL., 1975, SEG PLATINUM SYMPOSIUM, DENVER COLO., P. 12
  • Deposit:: PAPUNEN, 1970, ANN. ACAD. SCI. FENNILAE, SER. A., II, 109, 74 P.
  • Deposit:: KAHMA, 1973, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FINLAND, BULL. 265, 28 P.
  • Deposit:: HAKLI, HANNINEN, VUORELAINEN, PAPUNEN 1976, MINERALSIN THE HITURA NICKEL DEPOSIT, FINLAND; ECON. GEOL. V.7, NO.7
  • Deposit:: 1962 GEOPHYS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FINLAND
  • Deposit:: DIREXPL OUTOKUMPU CO.
  • Deposit:: DIREXPL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FINLAND
  • Production:: 2=KAHMA (1973), 3 & 4=PAPUNEN (1970)
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