Raipas kobbergruve, Alta kommune, Finnmark fylke, Norge
Mine which produced small quantities of high-grade copper ore in the middle of 19th century. Located about 5 km south of Alta.
References
- Vokes, F.M. (1957): Some copper sulphide parageneses from the Raipas formation of Northern Norway. Norges Geologiske Undersøkelse. 200, 74-111
- Vokes, F.M. (1957): On the presence of minerals of the linnaeite series in some copper ores from the Raipas formation of Northern Norway. Norges Geologiske Undersøkelse. 200, 112-120.
- Vokes, F.M. & Strand, G.S. (1982): Atoll-texture in minerals of the cobaltite-gersdorffite series from the Raipas Mine, Finnmark, Norway. In Amstutz, C.C. (ed.) Ore genesis- the state of the art. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 118-130.
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