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Boliden Mine, Boliden, Skellefteå, Västerbotten, Sweden

(Boliden Mine, Boliden, Skellefteå, Västerbotten, Sweden)

Complex sulphide mine (metamorphosed High-sulphidation-VMS).
http://www.gl.rhbnc.ac.uk/geode/Fennoscandia/Boliden.html

The Boliden sulphide deposit. A review of geo-investigations carried out during the lifetime of the Boliden Mine, Sweden. (E.Grip& Å.Wirstam). Swedish Geol. Survey (SGU) Ser C no 651 (1970).

Gelogy and ores of the Boliden deposit. (Olof H. Ödman). Swedish Geol. Survey (SGU) Ser C no 438 (1941).

Ore production during the mine life (1924-1967); 8,3 Mton with a contents of 128 ton Au, 411 ton Ag, 118 kton Cu, 566 kton As plus numerous other products. ( "Ore in Sweden 2" by E.Grip& R.Frietsch. ISBN 91-20-03191-2.(in Swedish))





Mineral List:
  		•  'Albite-Anorthite Series'
  		• Analcime
  		• Andalusite
  		• Antimony
  		• Apatite-(CaF)
  		• 'Apophyllite'
  		• Arsenic
  		• Arsenopyrite
  		• Biotite
  		• Bismuth
  		• Bismuthinite
  		• Bonchevite
  		• Boulangerite
       var: Falkmanite
  		• Bournonite
  		• Calcite
  		• Chalcopyrite
  		• 'Chlorite Group'
  		• 'Clausthalite-Galena Series'
  		• Cobaltite
  		• Corundum
  		• Cosalite
  		• Covellite
  		• Cubanite
  		• Diaspore
  		• Dolomite
  		• Dyscrasite
  		• Emplectite
  		• Erythrite
  		• Fluorite
  		• Galena
       var: Selenian Galena
  		• Galenobismutite
  		• 'Garnet Group'
  		• Gersdorffite
  		• Gold
       var: Electrum
  		• Goldamalgam
  		• 'Goongarrite'
  		• Greenockite
  		• Guanajuatite
  		• Gudmundite
  		• Hedleyite
  		• Hisingerite
  		• Jamesonite
  		• Joséite
  		• Kaolinite
  		• Klockmannite
  		• Kobellite
  		• Kyanite
  		• Laitakarite
  		• Lillianite
  		• Madocite
  		• Magnetite
  		• Marcasite
  		• Meneghinite
  		• Miargyrite
  		• Muscovite
  		• Nickeline
  		• Phengite
    var: Mariposite
  		• Phlogopite
  		• Pyrargyrite
  		• Pyrite
  		• 'Pyrobitumen
    var: Thucholite'
  		• Pyrrhotite
  		• Quartz
  		• Rutile
  		• Safflorite
  		• Scheelite
  		• Sillimanite
  		• Silver
  		• Sphalerite
  		• Stannite
  		• Sternbergite
  		• Stützite
  		• Svanbergite
  		• Tellurobismuthite
  		• Tennantite
  		• Tetradymite
  		• Tetrahedrite
  		• Titanite
  		• 'Tourmaline Group'
  		• Tsumoite
  		• Valleriite
  		• Zircon


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