Mine detail: Renstrom Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 64.96532, 19.66992

Resource(M)

Primary: Zinc, Copper, Lead
Secondary: Silver, Gold, Sulfur-Pyrite
Tertiary: Arsenic
Ore: Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Pyrargyrite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite
Gangue: Chlorite, Quartz, Sericite
Orebody form: LENS OR SLAB SHAPED BANDED ORE
Discovery year: 1927

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Medium
Development status: Producer
First production started: 1952

Geology

Host rock:Tuffitic Keratophyre, Quartz Porphyry, Quartz Keratophyre;Phyllites, Shales, Clastic Sediments;Agglomerates
Host type:Quartzite,Keratophyre
Tectonic:Eugeosyncline
Alteration processes:Sericitization And Chloritization Of Wall Rock

References

MRDSW018965
DEP10073126
Reference{Deposit:: RICKARD, D. T., ZWEIFEL, HANS, 1975, GENESIS OF PRECAMBRIAN SULFIDE ORES, SKELLEFTE DIST., SWEDEN; ECON. GEOL. V 70, NO 2, P 255 - 274}{Deposit:: GRIP, E., 1950, LEAD AND ZINC DEPOSITS IN NORTHERN SWEDEN; INT. GEOL. CONG. 18TH, REPT. 7 P 362 - 370}{Deposit:: GRIP, E., 1978, SWEDEN, IN BOWIE, S.H.U., KVALHEIM, A., AND HASLAM, H.W., EDS., MINERAL DEPOSITS OF EUROPE, VOLUME 1: NORTHWEST EUROPE: LONDON, THE INSTITUTION OF MINING AND METALLURGY AND THE MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY, P. 93-198.}{Deposit:: VOKES, F.M., 1978, INTRODUCTION, IN BOWIE, S.H.U., KVALHEIM, A., AND HASLAM, H.W., EDS., MINERAL DEPOSITS OF EUROPE, VOLUME 1: NORTHWEST EUROPE: LONDON, THE INSTITUTION OF MINING AND METALLURGY AND THE MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY, P. 1-33.}{Deposit:: ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, 1976, INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY, P. 287.}{Deposit:: MOSIER AND OTHERS, 1983, GEOLOGIC AND GRADE-TONNAGE INFORMATION ON VOLCANIC-HOSTED COPPER-ZINC-LEAD MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSITS: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT 83-89, 78 P.}{Production:: E/MJ, 1976; GRIP, 1978; VOKES, 1978}
ReporterSchruben, Paul G., Orris, Greta J.