Skuterud kobolt gruver (Modum Kobolt gruver), Modum kommune, Buskerud fylke, Norge
Former Co-Cu mines operated from 1778 until 1898.
Mineralization is fahlband ores (mainly pyrite and chalcopyrite), with some cobalt sulphides. Type locality for skutterudite.
The mines were operated to produce cobalt to be used in the colouring of glass and ceramics. Now the site of an open-air mining museum with exhibitions in several buildings and a view of the open pits.
References
- Breithaupt, A.(1827): Ueber eine neue Kies-Spezies von Skutterud, in Norway. Annalen der Physik und Chemie (herausgegeben zu Berlin von J.C. Poggendorff). 9: 115-116
- Scheerer, Th. (1837): Ueber zwei norwegische Kobalterze von der Skutteruder Gruben. Annalen der Physik und Chemie. 42: 546-555
- Scheerer, Th. (1845): Bidrag til Kundskab om norske Mineralier. Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne. 4: 333-349 [with an analysis of tennantite from Skuterud]
- Rosenqvist, I. Th. (1949): Noen observasjoner og refleksjoner omkring Modum Koboltgruver (nedl.). I Fahlbåndene. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 27, 187-216. (In Norwegian)
- Rosenqvist, I. Th. (1949): The Modum cobalt mines. II. Degranitization. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 28, 1-20.
- Neumann, H. (ed)(1960): Mineral occurences in southern Norway. Guide to excursions no. A.15 and no. C.12. International Geological Congress XXI Session Norden 1960, Oslo. 18p.
- Gammon, J. B. (1966): Fahlbands in the Precambrian of southern Norway. Economic Geology 61, 174-188.
- Liessmann, W. (1994): Vom Kobalterz zum Köningsblau. Zur Geschichte des Skuteruder Kobaltbergbaues und des Modumer Blaufarbenwerkes in Südnorwegen. Emser Hefte 15 (4), 1-64. (In German)
- Andersen, Tom; Grorud, Hans-Fredrik (1998): Age and lead isotope systematics of uranium-enriched cobalt mineralization in the Modum complex, South Norway: Implications for Precambrian crustal evolution in the SW part of the Baltic Shield. Precambrian Research 91(3-4), 419-432.
- Werner, R. (2005): Skuterud: et eventyrlig gruvelandskap. Stein 32 (2): 29-34
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