A niobium mine, operated from 1956 to 1965. The ore was a pyrochlore-bearing (0.5%) apatite-calcite-magnetite rock with minor amounts of pyrite. Access to the mine is blocked because the headframe collapsed into the shaft below it.
References
- 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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