Metamorphosed manganese-iron deposit with extremely complex skarns and pegmatites. Around 300 minerals have been found here, of which 30 minerals have been found only here. See also the related deposits of Jakobsberg and Harstigen.
NB. It is prohibited by Swedish law to collect at certain places in Långban.
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References
- Sjögren, A. (1886): Mineralogiska notiser XII. Fynd af allaktit i Långbans grufvor. Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlinger 8: 473-474.
- Flink (1920): Geologiska Föreningens I Stockholm. Förhandlingar, Stockholm: 42, 436.
- Magnusson, N.H. (1930): Långbans malmtrakt. Geologisk beskrivning SGU Ca 23.
- Mason, B. (1942): Bixbyite from Långban. Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar 64, 117-125.
- Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951): The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II: 857, 900, 927, 1021, 1028, 1032, 1033, 1036, 1037, 1039, 1040.
- Kautz, K. (1967): Faseriger Hedyphan yon Långban (Schweden): eine orientierte Verwachsung mit Antigorit. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 14, 224-228 (in German).
- Burke, E.A.J. and C. Kieft (1971): Second occurrence of makedonite [macedonite], PbTiO3, Langban, Sweden. Lithos, 4, 101–104.
- Boström, K., Rydell, H., and Joensuu, O. (1979): Långban - An exhalative sedimentary deposit? Economic Geology 74, 1002-1011.
- Rocks & Minerals (1983): 58: 288.
- Hansen, S., Fälth, L., Petersen, O. V. & Johnson, O. (1984): Bergslagite, a new mineral species from Långban, Sweden: Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte:1984, 257-262
- Hansen, S. , Fälth, L. & Johnsen, O. (1984): Bergslagite , a mineral with tetrahedral berylloarsenate sheet anions. Zeitschrift für Kristallographie: 160: 73-80
- Rocks & Minerals (1985): 60: 237-242.
- Rocks & Minerals (1987): 62: 166.
- Rocks & Minerals (1988): 63: 456.
- Blatter, F. (1997): Bergbau in Langban, Sweden. Aufschluss 48 (2), 97-123. (in German).
- Holtstam, D. & Langhof, J. eds. (1999): Långban: The mines, their minerals, geology and explorers. Swedish Museum of Natural History and Raster Förlag, Stockholm & Chr. Weise Verlag, Munich, pp. 216.
- Jonsson, E. and Broman, C. (2002): Fluid inclusions in late-stage Pb–Mn–As–Sb mineral assemblages in the Långban deposit, Bergslagen, Sweden. Canadian Mineralogist, 40, 47-65.
- Christy, A.G. & Gatedal, K. (2005): Extremely Pb-rich rock-forming silicates including a beryllian scapolite and associated minerals in a skarn from Långban, Värmland, Sweden. Mineralogical Magazine, 69, 995-1018.
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