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Zircon from
Boliden Mine, Boliden, Skellefte mining district, Skellefteå, Västerbotten County, Sweden


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Zircon
Formula:Zr(SiO4)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Zircon data
Locality Data:Click here to view Boliden Mine, Boliden, Skellefte mining district, Skellefteå, Västerbotten County, Sweden
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:75989
Long-form Identifier:1:3:75989:6
GUID (UUID V4):1c2a52b5-667b-4738-9c18-efbf73422b80
Nearest other occurrences of Zircon
19.5km (12.1 miles) Varuträsk, Skellefteå, Västerbotten County, Sweden
26.1km (16.2 miles) Åkerberg mine, Skellefte mining district, Skellefteå, Västerbotten County, Sweden
44.1km (27.4 miles) Innansjön, Burträsk, Skellefte mining district, Skellefteå, Västerbotten County, Sweden
76.7km (47.7 miles) Lainijaur Mine (Lainejaur), Malå, Västerbotten County, Sweden
87.3km (54.3 miles) Kristineberg Mine, Malå, Västerbotten County, Sweden
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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magmatism and mineralization in the Bothnia–Skellefteå lithotectonic unit, Svecokarelian orogen PIETARI...Luleå, Sweden 3 Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, SE-752 36 Uppsala, Sweden 4 Department...Finland 5 Geological Survey of Sweden, Box 670, SE-751 28 Uppsala, Sweden ‡ Pro Vice-Chancellor, Luleå...*Correspondence: pietari.skytta@utu.fi Abstract: The Bothnia–Skellefteå lithotectonic unit is dominated by turbiditic...90–1.86 Ga predominantly magmatic rocks (the Skellefte–Arvidsjaur magmatic province) are enclosed by
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Scheelite from the Björkdal Gold Deposit, Northern Sweden: Evidence of an Intrusion-Related Gold Deposit...deposit is located ~25 km northwest of Skellefte in northern Sweden, within a Paleoproterozoic volcanosedimentary...hydrothermal fluids. Introduction THE SKELLEFTE district of northern Sweden contains extensive volcanic-hosted...high gold grades (e.g., an average of 15 ppm at Boliden: Weihed et al., 1996). Lode-gold mineralization...from the gold-bearing massive sulfide deposit at Boliden and is hosted by the same volcanosedimentary sequence
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Evolution of the Björkdal Gold Deposit, Skellefte District, Northern Sweden: Implications for Early Proterozoic...Luleå University of Technology, SE-971 87 Luleå, Sweden JEANETTE BERGMAN WEIHED,* Department of Earth...Uppsala University, Villavägen 16, SE-752 36 Uppsala, Sweden AND PETER SORJONEN-WARD Geological Survey of...the Paleoproterozoic Skellefte district in northern Sweden. The Skellefte district constitutes a 1.89 to...lithons between thrusts within the duplex. In the mine, the quartz veins in the footwall to the thrust
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and regional deformation patterns, Skellefte district, northern Sweden Tobias E. Bauer & Pietari Skyttä...Berlin Heidelberg 2014 Abstract The Skellefte district in northern Sweden is host to abundant volcanogenic...of the volcanic stratigraphy. Subsequently, the district was subjected to deformation (D2) during crustal...comparison with undeformed equivalents in the Hokuroko district, Japan allow an estimation of apparent strain...Luleå, Sweden e-mail: tobias.bauer@ltu.se P. Skyttä : T. Hermansson : R. L. Allen The Boliden Group,
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discontinuity in the Svecofennian province of northern Sweden” by Rutland et al. (PR 112, 211–237, 2001) and...episodes in the Palaeoproterozoic domain of northern Sweden, and evidence for a pre-1.9 Ga crustal layer” by...Luleå University of Technology, Lulea SE-971 87, Sweden Received 2 April 2002; accepted 11 August 2002...Structural analysis; Plate tectonics; Skellefte district; Sweden Rutland et al. (2001a,b) provide new...interesting data on the regional evolution of the Skellefte district and surrounding areas. The data presented
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Luleå, Sweden Department of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Lund University, SE-223 62 Lund, Sweden c Boliden...Boliden Mineral AB, SE-936 81 Boliden, Sweden d Ernst Geosciences, 43 Margrave Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario...Available online 20 June 2012 Keywords: Skellefte district Intrusive Zircon Baddeleyite Cu–Au mineralisation...geochronology a b s t r a c t The Skellefte district, northern Sweden, is known for the occurrence of 1...spatially related 1.89 Ga VMS deposits in the Skellefte district. This 1.88 Ga event correlates with other
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sheeted Vein-Type Åkerberg Gold Deposit, Skellefte District, Sweden Kjell Billström 1,*, Benny Mattson 2...Box 50007, Stockholm 10405, Sweden Boliden Mineral AB, Boliden 93681, Sweden; E-Mails: benny.mattson@boliden...Lund University, Sölvegatan 12, Lund SE-22362, Sweden; E-Mail: ulf.soderlund@geol.lu.se Department of...Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm 10691, Sweden; E-Mail: curt.broman@geo.su.se * Author to whom...Early Proterozoic (~1.9 Ga) Skellefte mining district in northern Sweden hosts abundant base metal deposits
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
estimation of undiscovered VMS deposits in Skellefte district (Sweden) Emmanuel John M. Carranza a,⁎, Martiya... The Netherlands Geological Survey of Sweden, Uppsala, Sweden a r t i c l e i n f o Article history:...of undiscovered VMS endowment in the Skellefte district (Sweden). The results of analyses of the spatial...geological controls on VMS mineralization in the district, and we used them to define spatial recognition...map of prospective areas occupying 15% of the district and having fittingand prediction-rates of 100%
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
early-Proterozoic volcanic arc reworking in the Skellefte district (northern Sweden) and implications for the Svecofennian...of Natural History, Box 50007, 10405 Stockholm, Sweden a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...Keywords: Zircon Hf isotopes Proterozoic Skellefte district Volcanic arc a b s t r a c t The Skellefte district...heavily mineralized crustal domain in northern Sweden that formed between 1.90 and 1.87 Ga. It is commonly...reworking of the Knaften-Barsele arc to produce the Skellefte rocks over a short time interval from 1.90 to
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ARTICLE The Boliden gold-rich volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit, Skellefte district, Sweden: new U–Pb...age constraints and implications at deposit and district scale Patrick Mercier-Langevin & Vicky McNicoll...the Queen in Right of Canada 2012 Abstract The Boliden deposit (8.3 Mt at 15.9 g/t Au) is interpreted...rhyolite in the deposit footwall in the volcanic Skellefte group and a minimum age of 1890.8±1 Ma obtained...(1) volcanism and hydrothermal activity in the Skellefte group were initiated Editorial handling: F. Tornos
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the Varuträsk rare-element pegmatite (Northern Sweden) Karin Siegel a, Thomas Wagner b,⁎, Robert B. Trumbull...Resources, Geological Survey of Sweden, Box 670, SE-75128 Uppsala, Sweden e CEMPEG, Department of Earth...Sciences, Uppsala University, SE-75236 Uppsala, Sweden f Department of Earth Sciences, Institute of Geochemistry...Varuträsk rare-element pegmatite (Skellefte District, Northern Sweden) has been investigated using stable...of this study of the Varuträsk pegmatite in NE Sweden. The Varuträsk pegmatite is a classic example of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Palaeoproterozoic Kristineberg VMS deposit, Skellefte district, northern Sweden, part I: geology Received: 20 May...westernmost part of the Palaeoproterozoic Skellefte district, northern Sweden, has yielded 22.4 Mt of ore, grading...since the mine opened in 1941, and is the largest past and present VMS mine in the district. The deposit...rocks of the Skellefte Group, which forms the lowest stratigraphic unit in the district and hosts more...Kristineberg deposit is situated lower in the Skellefte Group than most other deposits. It comprises three
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
evolution of the Early Proterozoic Skellefte district, northern Sweden P. Weihed a, J. Bergmanb and U. Bergstrrm...Gothenburg/Chalmers University of Technology, S-412 96 Grteborg, Sweden bDepartment of Mineralogy and Petrology, GeologicalInstitute...Uppsala University, Box 555, S- 751 22 Uppsala, Sweden (Received January 6, 1991; accepted after revision...evolution of the Early Proterozoic Skellefte district, northern Sweden. In: G. Gaul and K. Schulz (Editors)...mineralizations in the Early Proterozoic Skellefte district are discussed and placed in a palaeotectonic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
TectonicSetting,andOriginof the Paleoproterozoic Boliden Au-Cu-AsDeposit,SkellefteDistrict,NorthernSweden...Mineralogy-Petrology, Norbyvtigen 18B,S-75236 Uppsala, Sweden ULF BERGSTROM,* Department of Geology, EarthSciences...EarthSciences Centre,Guldhedsgatan 5A,S-41381 GOreborg, Sweden KJELL BILLSTROM, Laboratory for Isotope Geology...Stockholm, Sweden AND PAR WEIHED Geological Surveyof Sweden, Box670,S-75128 Uppsala, Sweden Abstract ... The Skellefte districtin northern Sweden comprises morethan85 pyriticvolcanic-hosted massive sulfide
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Massive Pyrite Deposit at Niisliden, Skellefte District, Sweden D. Rickard 1 and Sven-.~ke Svensson 2...universitet S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden 2 Boliden Mineral AB, S-930 50 Boliden, Sweden Abstract. The ore lead isotope...Proterozoic metavolcanics in the Skellefte field of northern Sweden. Rickard and Zweifel (1975, 1976)...secretion hypothesis for ore formation, in this district. This hypothesis postulated that the ore metals...constituent of the Skellefte field ores (ca. 0.2%). However, it is widely distributed in the district and intimately
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adjacent to the Paleoproterozoic Boliden Au-rich VMS deposit, Sweden: evidence from petrographic and oxygen...Germany 2017 Abstract Adjacent to the world-class Boliden deposit, fine- to coarse-grained Zn-Pb-Sb-Au-rich...regarded to stratigraphically overlie the Skellefte Volcanics and Boliden deposit. The metasedimentary succession...metamorphic conditions (~ 350–450 °C, < 4 kbars) in the Boliden area. However, preservation of plagioclase and...010-8502, Japan 2 Boliden Mineral, Exploration Department, 776 98 Garpenberg, Sweden conditions. These
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CC Attribution 3.0 License. Solid Earth New zircon data supporting models of short-lived igneous activity...activity at 1.89 Ga in the western Skellefte District, central Fennoscandian Shield P. Skyttä1 , T.... 97187 Luleå, Sweden Mineral AB, 93681 Boliden, Sweden 3 Geological Survey of Sweden, P.O. Box 670,...Uppsala, Sweden 4 NORDSIM, Swedish Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 5007, 10405 Stockholm, Sweden 2 Boliden...Published: 26 October 2011 Abstract. New U-Th-Pb zircon data (SIMS) from three intrusive phases of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geochemistry,Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm,Sweden Received: December 1989/Accepted: August 2, 1990...been opened than during any other episode in the mining history of northern Europe. The occurrence of gold...volcanogenic massive sulphide deposits (e.g. Holmtjfirn, Boliden and Pyh/isalmi). Other types are: (c) gold-bearing...these granites have been identified in southeastern Sweden ()~delfors). 4. In the Sveconorwegian Domain, the...approximately one million square kilometers in Sweden, Finland, Norway and the westernmost USSR, is the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
discontinuity in the Svecofennian province of northern Sweden R.W.R. Rutland a,*, L. Kero b, G. Nilsson b, L...Australia b Geological Sur6ey of Sweden, Box 670, 751 28 Uppsala, Sweden Received 20 July 1999; accepted...2001 Abstract The volcanic rocks of the Skellefte ore district (ca. 1.89– 1.87 Ga), like other volcanic...modelled geoelectric anomaly, dipping NE beneath the district from the southern province, has provided support...aeromagnetic and gravity data indicate that the Skellefte district is the site of a major tectonic discontinuity
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
constraints for epigenetic gold deposits in the Skellefte and Pohjanmaa districts, central part of the Fennoscandian...91 Stockholm, Sweden 2 Geological Survey of Sweden, Box 670, S-751 28 Uppsala, Sweden 3 Swedish Museum...S-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden r Swedish Geological Co, Box 801, S-951 28 LuleL Sweden 5 Department of Geology...been determined for three districts in northern Sweden and central Finland. The deposits are hosted by...within the Skellefte District island arc in Sweden as well as I-type tonalites at J6rn (Sweden) and Pohjanmaa
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Springer-Verlag 1994 The En isen gold deposit, central Sweden 1. A palaeoproterozoic high-sulphidation epithermal...Uppsala University,Norbyv~igen18B, S-752 36, Uppsala, Sweden Received: 22 September 1993/ Accepted: 16 December...rocks within the Enstern-En~sen region, central Sweden. Mineralization consists of disseminated chalcopyrite...Palaeoproterozoic En~sen gold deposit in central Sweden (Fig. 1) is unique in view of the remarkable *Present...Survey of Sweden, Mineral Resources Information Office, Skolgatan 4, S-930 70 Mal~., Sweden quartz-sillimanite
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Crustal 3-D geometry of the Kristineberg area (Sweden) with implications on VMS deposits P. Skyttä1,2...University of Technology, 97187 Luleå, Sweden Mineral AB, 93681 Boliden, Sweden 3 Uppsala University, Department...Earth Sciences, Villavägen 16, 75236 Uppsala, Sweden 2 Boliden Correspondence to: P. Skyttä (pietari.skytta@gmail...massive sulfide (VMS) hosting Kristineberg area, Sweden, constrained by existing magnetotelluric (MT) and...polarities within the scale of the whole Skellefte district. The resulting structural framework of the
Report (chapter)
intrusive hosted Älgträsk Au deposit, Northern Sweden THERESE BEJGARN1*, HANS ÅREBÄCK2, PÄR WEIHED1...Technology, SE-971 87 Luleå, Sweden 2 Boliden Mineral AB, SE-936 81 Boliden, Sweden *Corresponding author...Älgträsk intrusive hosted Au deposit, Skellefte district, northern Sweden, is situated in the oldest, most...Älgträsk deposit was discovered in the 1980s by Boliden Mineral AB and has over the years been subject...(Volcanogenic massive sulphide) deposits in the Skellefte district south –SW of Älgträsk (Fig. 1) have been
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development of lead isotopic provinces in the Skellefte district, Sweden K. Billstriim 1 and W. Vivallo 2'* 1...Stockholm, Sweden 2 Department of Geologyand Geochemistry,Stockholm University,S-10691 Stockholm,Sweden Received:...(1.9 Ga) supracrustals in the Skellefte ore district, northern Sweden. The ore lead data can be grouped...levels of the volcanic pile. The Skellefte ore province in northern Sweden (Fig. 1) forms a west-northwest...by terrestrial metavolcanics of the Arvidsjaur district and to the south by migmatitic metasedimentary
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sulfide deposit, Skellefte district, Sweden C. Trepka-Bloch Department of Exploration Boliden Mineral AB,... S-936 00 Boliden, Sweden Abstract. The Rakkejaur volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit is conformably...located in the western part of the Skellefte mining district in northern Sweden. The deposit was located in...estimated at 0.2%. Operations were idle until open-pit mining started in 1967. Major factors in shutting down...genesis of the massive sulfide deposits in the Skellefte district. Eklund (1923), H6gbom (1937), Gavelin (1955)
 
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