Mine detail: Bleikvassli Mine

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Location

Lat / long:

65.91547, 13.87012

Resource(M)

Primary:	Zinc, Copper, Lead
Secondary:	Sulfur-Pyrite
Tertiary:	Silver, Tin, Nickel
Ore:	Boulangerite, Bournonite, Breithauptite, Cassiterite, Chalcopyrite, Cubanite, Galena, Magnetite, Marcasite, Molybdenite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite, Stannite
Gangue:	Mica, Quartz
Orebody form:	CONFORMABLE EN ECHELON LENSES
Discovery year:	1914

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Yes
Development status:	Producer
First production started:	1957

Geology

Host rock:	Gneisses, Micaschist, Minor Quartzites, Pegmatites
Host type:	Quartzite,Mica Schist,Gneiss
Associated type:	Pegmatite
Structure:	Rodingfjell Nappe (Overthrust), Caledonian Mountains.
Tectonic:	Eugeosyncline
Alteration processes:	Gossan Cap, Leached Ore Beneath It

References

MRDS	W018943
DEP	10073113
Reference	{Deposit:: VOKES, F. M., 1963, GEOLOGIC STUDIES ON THE CALEDONIAN PYRITIC ZINC-LEAD OREBODY AT BLEIKVASSLI, NORDLAND, NORWAY; NORGES GEOL. UND. V. 222, 126 P.}{Deposit:: MINING ANNUAL REVIEW, 1975, P. 463.}{Deposit:: RAUSCH AND MARIACHER, 1970, AIME SYMPOSIUM ON PB-ZN, V. 1, P. 953.}{Deposit:: 1948 DIREXPL A/S BLEIKVASSLI GRUBER - 1ST SERIOUS EXPLORATIO}{Production:: RAUSCH AND MARIACHER, 1970; VOKES, 1963; MINING ANNUAL REVIEW, 1975}
Reporter	Schruben, Paul G.