Harstigen Mine, Pajsberg, Persberg district, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden

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Harstigsgruvan, Pajsberg, Persbergs malmtrakt, Filipstad, Värmland, Sverige

Small Fe-Mn mine worked 1847-1853 and 1887-1889. The mine is 33 m deep, 15 m long and 2 m wide. Situated in a dolomite lens between potassic metarhyolites and basic rocks. Similar to Långban.
Total production was 356 t iron ore and 153 t manganese ore.

Note that many Harstigen specimens are merely labeled 'Pajsberg'.

References

- Flink, G. (1886): Mineralogiska notiser 1. Harstigit från Pajsberg. Bihang till Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar 12 (II): 59-63

- Hamberg, A. (1888): Om kristalliseradt bly från Harstigsgrufvan vid Pajsberg i Värmland. Översigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar 1888. 45, 483-490

- Hamberg, A. (1890): Mineralogische Studien. 7. Über die Manganophylle von der Grube Harstigen bei Pajsberg in Vermland. Geologiska Föreningen i Stockholm Förhandlingar 133, 567-579

- Lindström, G. (1891): Mineralanalyser. 1. Brandtit från Harstigen. Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar 13: 123-126

- Hamberg, A. (1891): Mineralogische Studien. 3. Über Flinkit, ein wasserhaltiges Manganarseniat aus der Grube Harstigen bei Pajsberg in Vermland. Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar 11: 212-222

- 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, 902, 1023, 1036, 1037, 1040.

- Nysten, P. (1984): Kleinod des Nordens - Harstigen in Schweden. Magma 2/1984, 12-30.

- Nysten, P. (2004): Harstigen ett mineralogisk eldorado i Bergslagen. Norsk Bergverksmuseum Skrift 28, 5-13.

External Links

http://www.geonord.org/org/BGS/harstigen.html

Mineral List

Actinolite Adelite Aegirine-augite Alamosite Albite Algodonite Allactite Allanite-(Ce) Alleghanyite Almandine Andradite Anthophyllite ? Antigorite 'Apatite' Apophyllite-(KF) Aragonite Arsenic Arsenopyrite Azurite Barylite Barysilite (TL) Baryte Bementite Biotite var: Manganophyllite Birnessite Bornite Brandtite (TL) Bromellite Brucite Bustamite Calcite Calderite Caryopilite (TL) Celsian Cerussite Chalcocite Chalcopyrite Chrysocolla Clinochlore var: Pennine

Clinochrysotile Copper Covellite Cuprite Cymrite Digenite Diopside Dolomite Domeykite Ecdemite Epidote 'Ferri-ferrowinchite' Ferri-winchite (of Leake 1978) Ferro-Actinolite Ferrowinchite Flinkite (TL) Fluorapatite Fluorite Friedelite Gageite Galena Ganophyllite (TL) Goethite Gonyerite Graphite Grossular Gypsum Harstigite (TL) Hausmannite Hedenbergite Hedyphane Heliophyllite Helvite Hematite Hematolite Hibschite Hyalophane Hydrocerussite 'Hydrogrossular' Ilmenite Ilvaite

Inesite Iwakiite Jacobsite Jagoite Joesmithite Johannsenite Julgoldite-(Fe2+) Julgoldite-(Fe3+) Kentrolite Kirschsteinite Koutekite Kutnohorite Lead Leucophoenicite Litharge Lizardite Löllingite Macedonite Magnetite Magnetoplumbite Malachite Manganohörnesite Manganosite Manganvesuvianite Margarosanite Melanotekite Microcline Mimetite Molybdenite Molybdophyllite Montmorillonite Muscovite Nadorite Neotocite Oxyplumboroméite ? Palygorskite ? Pectolite var: Manganoan Pectolite Pennantite Phenakite Phlogopite

Prehnite 'Pumpellyite' Pyrite Pyroaurite Pyrochroite Pyrolusite Pyrophanite (TL) Pyrosmalite-(Mn) Quartz Rhodochrosite Rhodonite Richterite Roméite Group var: Monimolite (TL) Rutile Sahlinite Sarkinite (TL) Schallerite ? Scheelite Silver Sonolite Spessartine Sphalerite Svabite (TL) Talc Tephroite Tetrahedrite Thomsonite-Ca Tilasite Titanite Todorokite Tremolite Trimerite (TL) Vermiculite Vesuvianite var: Manganoan Vesuvianite Xonotlite Zircon Zoisite

162 entries listed. 148 valid minerals. 10 type localities (valid minerals). 1 type locality (other).