Sala No. 10 Licence Area, Sala, Västmanland, Sweden

Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 59° 53' 57'' North , 16° 33' 38'' East |
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Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | 59.89919,16.56077 |
GeoHash: | G#: u6eubb74j |
Owned/operated by: | Beowulf Mining plc |
Locality type: | Licence Area |
Köppen climate type: | Dfb : Warm-summer humid continental climate |
The Sala nr 10 licence area covers 1,049ha and is in Vӓstmanland County, southern Sweden. The licence is prospective for lead-zinc-silver mineralisation and is situated 200m west of the former Sala silver mine.
Sulphide mineralisation in the area is carbonate hosted, occurring dominantly as silver-bearing lead sulphide (galena), and zinc sulphide (sphalerite), and to a lesser extent as complex antimonides, sulphosalts and native silver.
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Regional Geology
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Paleoproterozoic 1600 - 2500 Ma ID: 3185452 | Paleoproterozoic intrusive rocks Age: Proterozoic (1600 - 2500 Ma) Lithology: Intrusive igneous rocks Reference: Chorlton, L.B. Generalized geology of the world: bedrock domains and major faults in GIS format: a small-scale world geology map with an extended geological attribute database. doi: 10.4095/223767. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5529. [154] |
Paleoproterozoic 1600 - 2500 Ma ID: 3151390 | Proterozoic I meta-rhyolite Age: Proterozoic (1600 - 2500 Ma) Description: undifferentiated metamorphic Lithology: Meta-rhyolite Reference: Asch, K. The 1:5M International Geological Map of Europe and Adjacent Areas: Development and Implementation of a GIS-enabled Concept. Geologisches Jahrbuch, SA 3. [147] |
Orosirian 1800 - 2050 Ma ID: 2638788 |
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