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Västanå Iron Mine (Westanå Mine), Näsum, Bromölla, Skåne, Sweden

Chloritoid
Västanå Iron Mine, Näsum, Bromölla, Skåne, Sweden

Photo: Kjell Gatedal
Latitude: 56°10'N
Longitude: 14°29'E
Västanågruvan (Västanå järnmalmsgruva)

Small iron mine, active from 1804 to 1916. The ore consisted of specular hematite in quartzite. Belongs to the same deformation zone as Hålsjöberg, Värmland and Hökensås, Västergötland. The mine is the type locality for the minerals attakolite, augelite, berlinite, and trolleite.

References

- Blomstrand, C. W. (1868): Om Vestanå Mineralier. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar 25 (3), 197-212

- Weibull, M., (1886): Om manganapatit från Vestanå jemte några anmärkningar öfver apatitens sammansättning. Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar 8, 492-495;

- Weibull, M. (1898) : Om några Vestanåmineral. Geologiska Föreningens i Stock­holm Förhandlingar 20, 57-66

- 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: 845, 872, 910, 911, 1006.

- Bergström, J. & Shaikh, N.A. (1980) SGU Rapport o. meddel. 22.

- Thomasson, R. (1983): Bjarebyite, (Ba,Sr)(Mn,Fe2+)2(Al,Fe3+)2(PO4)3(OH)3, ett nytt fosfatmineral från Västanå Järngruva, Skåne- En undersökning av kristallstrukturen. M.Sc. thesis, Lunds Universitet, Lund, Sweden. 30p.

- Hansen, S. & Landa-Canovas, A. (1994): Childrenite and millisite from Västanå Mine, Skåne, Sweden. GFF (Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar) 116: 92.

- Svensson, D., Hansen, S. & Bovin, J.-O. (2002): Hurlbutite, the first Be mineral from Västanå iron mine, Skåne, Sweden. Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar 124, 41-43.

- Sandstöm, F. (2007): Västanåfeltets geologi och mineralogi. Litiofilen 24 (2): 14-38



External Links

- http://www.df.lth.se/~danielsv/vastana/

Mineral List

Andalusite
'Apatite'
Attakolite (TL)
Augelite (TL)
Bearthite
Berlinite (TL)
Bjarebyite
Childrenite
Chloritoid
Cirrolite
Dravite
Epidote
Florencite-(Ce)
Fluorapatite
var: Mn-bearing Fluorapatite

Hematite
Hurlbutite
Kaolinite
Kyanite
Lazulite
Magnetite
Millisite
'Monazite' ?
Muscovite
var: Damourite
var: Sericite
Ottrélite
Piemontite
Pyrophyllite
Quartz
Rutile
Sillimanite
Svanbergite
Talc
'Tourmaline'
Trolleite (TL)
Zircon


36 entries listed. 29 valid minerals. 4 type localities (valid minerals).

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