A lead-zinc mine in a SEDEX-type massive sulphide deposit, started in 1957 and closed in 1997, producing some 5 million tons of ore grading at 4% Zn, 2% Pb, 0.3% Cu and 25 mg/kg Ag, on average.
References:
- Vokes, F.M. (1962): Contributions to the mineralogy of Norway. No. 15. Gahnite in the Bleikvassli ore. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 42,317-329
- Mining Annual Review (1985):508.
- Cook, N.J.(1993):Conditions of metamorphism estimated from alteration lithologies and the ore at the Bleikvassli Zn-Pb-(Cu) deposit, Nordland, Norway. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 73 (4), 226-233.
- Rosenberg, J.L., Spry, P.G., Jacobson, C.E., Cook, N.J., and Vokes, F.M. (1998): Thermobarometry of the Bleikvassli Zn-Pb-(Cu) deposit, Nordland, Norway. Mineralium Deposita 34, 19-34.
- Cook, N.J., Spry, P.G., and Vokes, F.M. (1998): Mineralogy and textural relationships among sulphosalts and related minerals in the Bleikvassli Zn-Pb-(Cu) deposit, Nordland, Norway. Mineralium Deposita 34, 35-56.
- Grenne, T., Ihlen, P.M., and Vokes, F.M. (1999): Scandinavian Caledonide Metallogeny in a plate tectonic perspective. Mineralium Deposita 34, 422-471.
- Rosenberg, J.L., Spry, P.G., Jacobson, C.E., and Vokes, F.M. (2000): The effects of sulfidation and oxidation during metamorphism on compositionally varied rocks adjacent to the Bleikvassli Zn-Pb-(Cu) deposit, Nordland, Norway. Mineralium Deposita 35, 714-726.
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