Swedish Babingtonite Locality - Fagelmyra?

I have some pretty nice babingtonite crystals with calcite from "Fagelmyra, Sweden", collected by I. Johannsen. I do not see this locality in MIndat, but they look similar to the specimens from here:
"Grönsjöberget, Borlänge, Dalarna, Sweden".
Does anyone know if this is the same place?

I am sure this is a mixup from what I gather online with a short reference to an excursion in 2003
[www.geonord.org]

Fågelmyra and Grönsjöberg are two stops on the same mineralogical excursion, the former seems to be a granite quarry whereas the latter is a limestone quarry. It is not farfetched to think that material from one place got labeled with the other name.

cheers

Actually, I purchased the specimen in 1997, but maybe the trip was done over several years. I assume these are two towns fairly close together?

Hi Kelly !
It's pretty amazing what you write about discoveries of Babingtonit at Fågelmyra.
Last year I found just Babingtonit at that place. At dumped large piles of beautiful eyes granite situated between the mountains Fågelmyra and Grönsjöberget I have found cracks containing small crystals with rock crystal, titanite, zircon, an amphibole, blue apatite, beautiful prehnitkristaller and black babingtonit.
I have no information on any previously made these findings in that location.
The dumped granite comes from a large quarry in use in just Fågelmyra. It's incredibly beautiful to look at these minerals under the microscope.
I am enclosing some pictures taken during the 20 times magnification.(Apatit and Babingtonit)
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Although I have made findings of beautiful babingtonit in calcite from the limestone mine in Grönsjöberg

Regards
Göran Lindström (excuse my google translation)

Sorry Kelly !

I thought i had attached some photos.
I will try again. I'm not so used to write on this site.

Göran Lindström

The pictures are great, and the translation to English was good too. I am especially impressed with the blue apatite. The specimen I have is just babingtonite crystals (2-3 mm.) with calcite crystals (1-2 mm.) so I cannot say for sure if it is from granite but it is perhaps more likely from limestone. Thank you for posting the information and the pictures. It sounds like a good find!

Hi Kelly,

> "...they look similar to the specimens from here: "Grönsjöberget, Borlänge, Dalarna, Sweden".

Here's one being offered and labeled as being from there you may or may not have seen, thought I'd post it for you. Good luck with it. [translate.google.com]

Ron

I have the same citation from a 1997 David Shannon label for a specimen appearing to be etched from a calcite filled vein with babingtonite, quartz, titanite and a 'mountain leather' type amphibole. Shannon was reasonably careful about his labeling. Fagelmyra seems likely. The India and Massachusetts/ Rhode Island locations are in basalt if I'm not mistaken. Are there any basalt dikes near the granite quarry?
Thanks,

Hi,

Although I have not been at either Fågelmyra or Grönsjöberg, I'd like to point out that;

NE of the Borlänge town is a mountain called FÅGELBERGET. The Borlänge Energy do have an environmental station there called FÅGELMYRA.
In the Swedish Geological Survey publ Aa 189- there exist a quarry on the FÅGELBERGET and one limestone quarry SE of it called GRÖNSJÖBERGET.

A search on [kso.lantmateriet.se] (appr.search maps and place names(=ortnamn) in Sweden) do not give any hit for Fågelmyra- but five around Falun/ Borlänge for FÅGELMYREN (= BIRDS BOG).

Search on www.sgu.se give hits for babingtonite+ Grönsjöberg but not for the combination with Fågelmyra. Fågelmyra give hits for geohydrology and waste dump.....

Thus I fully agree with Johan Kjellman that it might be a mix with loc names- but babingtonites with calcite&limestone should likely go with Grönsjöberg. ( I do have bab's from both places and also need to get things straight). See what I can find further on.

rgrds

Aksel

Hi again,

Yesterday I got confirmation from the curator at the Museum of Natural History in Stockholm that the Babingtonite is from Grönsjöberget - the limestone quarry in the western rim of the said mountain.

Babingtonite is known ONLY from this location in the vicinity of Borlänge. It exist ~10 more limestone quarries in the Borlänge-Falun area and if someone have found something in these, is not known.

rgrds

Aksel