Mofjellet grube, Mofjellet, Rana (Mo i Rana), Nordland, Norge
Base metal (zinc, lead, copper) deposit, hosted by metapelitic quartz-mica-feldspar gneisses and amphibolites. Good specimens of
apophyllite-(KOH) occurred in cracks and vugs in a 20 cm wide tectonic zone, about 70 -80 m below the sea level, within one of the ore lenses (Larsen 1981).
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12 entries listed. 10 valid minerals.
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References
- Torgersen, J. C. (1928): Sink- og blyforekomster på Helgeland. Norges Geologiske Undersøkelse. 131, 1-60
- Larsen, A.O. (1980): Fluorapofyllitt og hydroksyapofyllitt. NAGS-nytt 7(2), 36-37 (in Norwegian).
- Larsen, A.O. (1981): Hydroxyapophyllite from the Mofjellet mine, Mo i Rana, northern Norway. Contributions to the Mineralogy of Norway, No. 66. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift. 61, 297-300.
- Grenne, T., Ihlen, P.M., and Vokes, F.M. (1999): Scandinavian Caledonide Metallogeny in a plate tectonic perspective. Mineralium Deposita 34, 422-471.
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