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Gåsgruvan limestone quarry, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden

(Gåsgruvans kalkbrott, Filipstad, Värmland, Sverige)

Gåsgruvan started as a limestone quarry in the middle of 1850. Earlier it was a iron mine. Today it is a large limestone quarry with a production of 200.000 t of limestone a year.





Mineral List:
  		•  Actinolite
       var: Byssolite
  		• Albite
    var: Oligoclase
  		• Allanite-(Ce)
  		• Almandine
  		• Andradite
  		• Anorthite
  		• Antigorite
  		• 'Apatite'
  		• Apatite-(CaF)
  		• 'Apophyllite'
  		• Apophyllite-(KF)
  		• Aragonite
  		• Augite
  		• Axinite-(Mn)
  		• Baryte
  		• Biotite
  		• Bornite
  		• Braunite
  		• Brucite
  		• Calcite
  		• 'Chalcedony'
  		• Chalcopyrite
  		• Chondrodite
  		• Clinochlore
       var: Pennine
       var: Ripidolite
  		• Clinochrysotile
  		• Clinohumite
  		• Clinozoisite
  		• Copper
  		• Covellite
  		• Cubanite
  		• Cuprite
  		• Diopside
  		• Dolomite
  		• Epidote
  		• Fayalite
  		• Fluorite
  		• Gahnite
  		• Galena
  		• Galenobismutite
  		• 'Garnet Group'
  		• Goethite
  		• Grossular
  		• Hedenbergite
  		• Hematite
  		• 'Hornblende'
  		• Humite
  		• Ilvaite
  		• Limonite
  		• Ludwigite
  		• Magnesiohornblende
  		• Magnetite
  		• 'Marialite-Meionite Series'
  		• Meionite
  		• Microcline
  		• Molybdenite
  		• Montmorillonite
  		• Muscovite
  		• Palygorskite
  		• Periclase
  		• Phlogopite
  		• Pigeonite
  		• Prehnite
  		• Pyrite
  		• Pyroaurite
  		• Pyrobelonite
  		• Pyrolusite
  		• Pyrrhotite
  		• Quartz
  		• Rhodochrosite
  		• Scheelite
       var: Molybdoscheelite
  		• Sillimanite
  		• Silver
  		• Sjögrenite
  		• Sphalerite
  		• Spinel
  		• Szaibélyite
  		• Talc
  		• Titanite
  		• Tremolite
  		• Uraninite
       var: Pitchblende
  		• Uranophane
  		• Valleriite
  		• Vesuvianite
  		• Wermlandite
  		• Wollastonite
  		• Zircon
  		• Zoisite


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