Bleikvassli Mine, Bleikvassli, Hemnes, Nordland, Norway

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Bleikvassli gruve, Bleikvassli, Hemnes kommune, Nordland fylke, Norge

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. (1960): Contributions to the mineralogy of Norway. No. 7. Cassiterite in the Bleikvassli ore. Norsk Geologisk Tidskrift. 40, 193-201
-Vokes, F.M. (1962): Contributions to the mineralogy of Norway. No. 15. Gahnite in the Bleikvassli ore. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 42,317-329
- Vokes, F.M. (1963): Geological studies on the Caledonian pyritic zinc-lead orebody at Bleikvassli, Nordland, Norway. Norges Geologiske Undersøkelse. 222, 1-126.
- 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.

Mineral List

Acanthite Allargentum Anglesite Ankerite Antimony 'Apatite' Arsenic Arsenopyrite Biotite Bismuth Bornite Boulangerite Bournonite Breithauptite Calcite Cassiterite Černýite Chalcocite Chalcopyrite 'Chlorite Group'

Clinozoisite Covellite Cubanite Dufrénoysite Dyscrasite Epidote Freibergite Gahnite Galena var: Argentiferous Galena Gedrite Geocronite Goethite Gold var: Electrum Grunerite Gudmundite Hematite Herzenbergite 'Hornblende'

Hydrozincite ? Ilmenite Jalpaite Jamesonite Jordanite Kesterite Kyanite Magnetite Marcasite Mckinstryite Melanterite Meneghinite Molybdenite Muscovite Ottemannite Pyrargyrite Pyrite Pyrrhotite Quartz Rutile

Scheelite Seligmannite Silver Spessartine Sphalerite Stannite Staurolite Sternbergite ? Stilpnomelane Stromeyerite Sulphur Tennantite Tetrahedrite var: Argentian Tetrahedrite Titanite 'Tourmaline' 'Unnamed (Cu-Ag-Fe Sulphide)' Valleriite Zincostaurolite

78 entries listed. 68 valid minerals. 1 erroneous literature entry.