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Albite from
Henry Mine, Kiruna Town Mining District, Kiruna, Norrbotten County, Sweden



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Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Albite
Formula:Na(AlSi3O8)
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Validity:Believed Valid
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Mineral Data:Click here to view Albite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Henry Mine, Kiruna Town Mining District, Kiruna, Norrbotten County, Sweden
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Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1325069
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1325069:6
GUID (UUID V4):eeffa85d-9f52-4ba2-9089-9d88c873de9e
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Leoben took place in Lapland, northern Finland & Sweden. Thanks to the organisation of Prof. Melcher and...biggest operating mines, Kemi (Cr), Aitik (Cu, Au), Kiruna (Fe) and Kittilä (Au) have been visited. Furthermore...Fennoscandia in Finland, NW Russia, Norway and Sweden (Figure 2). Archean crust occurs in the east and...Palaeoproterozoic components. The Archaean part of the Norrbotten province is dominantly covered by younger rocks...Gothian terranes; J – Jormua; K – Kittilä; Ki – Kiruna; O – Outokumpu; OR – Oslo rift; SA – Skellefte
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Oulu, SF-905 S-971 87 Luleii, 70 Oulu, Finland Sweden Received 19 October 1995; accepted 29 August 1996...kilometres in northern Fennoscandia, comprising northern Sweden, northern Finland and adjacent parts of Norway...(Fig. 1). Both minerals, often associated with albite, are of petrogenetic interest, particularly in...from western Sweden to eastern Finland, with occurrences in Norway and Russia. In Sweden, tourmaline ... Cu-(Au) sulphide ore. Norway: (1) Bidjovagge. Sweden: (2) Kopparisen, (3) Sjangeli, (5) Tjavelk, (10)
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Oxide-Apatite Mineralization in the Kiruna District, Norrbotten, Sweden* Anne Westhues,1,† John M. Hanchar...Museum of Natural History, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources...Luleå University of Technology, SE-971 87 Luleå, Sweden Abstract High spatial resolution zircon U-Pb geochronological...magmatic-hydrothermal emplacement model for the Kiruna area IOA ores. Introduction Iron oxide apatite...are economically important in the Norrbotten region of northern Sweden (e.g., Bergman et al., 2001). Several
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Cu-(Au) Prospect, Norrbotten: A New Iron Oxide-Copper-Gold Deposit in Northern Sweden M. SMITH,† School...Exploration B.V., Filial Sverige, Box 14, 930-70 Malå, Sweden R. HERRINGTON, Department of Mineralogy, Natural...Proterozoic supracrustal sequence of the Kiruna district, northern Sweden. Potentially economic grades of Cu...hosted in a metavolcanic sequence, with matrices of albite, actinolite, and calcite surrounded by halos of...typified by those of the Cloncurry district, Australia, Carajás district, Brazil, and the Chilean iron belt
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apatite–iron and Cu (-Au) occurrences, Kiruna area, northern Sweden Received: 25 May 2005 / Accepted: 10...Abstract The northern Norrbotten area in northern Sweden, is an important mining district and hosts several...in the region is at Tjårrojåkka, 50 km WSW of Kiruna. The deposits are hosted by strongly sheared and...Tjårrojåkka iron deposit is a typical apatite–iron ore of Kiruna-type and the Tjårrojåkka copper occurrence shows...epigenetic deposits in Norrbotten. The host rock has been affected by strong albite and K-feldspar alteration
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fluids in iron oxide–copper–gold systems, Norrbotten, Sweden: Constraints from Br/Cl ratios and stable...Fe-oxide ± Cu ± Au mineralising systems in Norrbotten, Sweden. Fluid inclusions in late-stage veins in... Chlorine isotopes in iron oxide–copper–gold deposits Sweden of these deposit types (and in some cases their...distribution of sodic alteration in the Kiruna district, Norrbotten, Sweden although no Fennoscandian evaporitic...potential fluid sources (Williams et al., 2005). In Norrbotten both deposits hosted by the Greenstone and Porphyry
Report (chapter)
magmatism, sedimentation and mineralization in the Norrbotten and Överkalix lithotectonic units, Svecokarelian...WEIHED2‡ 1 Geological Survey of Sweden, Box 670, SE-751 28 Uppsala, Sweden 2 Division of Geosciences and...Luleå University of Technology, SE-971 87 Luleå, Sweden ‡ Pro Vice-Chancellor, Luleå University of Technology...bergman@sgu.se Abstract: Two lithotectonic units (the Norrbotten and Överkalix units) occur inside the Paleoproterozoic...0–1.8 Ga) Svecokarelian orogen in northernmost Sweden. Archean (2.8–2.6 Ga and possibly older) basement
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fluid evolution and metal transport in the Kiruna District, Sweden: Contrasting metal behaviour in aqueous...deposits and Fe oxide-apatite deposits from Norrbotten, Sweden, formed in similar settings, and in some...al., 2010), and suggested the Fe oxide-apatite (Kiruna-type) deposits are a separate, but related, type...IOCG deposits, from the Kiruna and Malmberget ore districts, northern Sweden (Fig. 1) with the aims of...including the formation of regional scapolite and albite. There is also good evidence for mixing of different
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l•conomic Geology Vol. 70, 1975, pp. 1242-1258 Kiruna Iron Ores Are Not "Intrusive-Magmatic Ores of the...intrusive-magmatictheory for the formationof the iron ores of the Kiruna Field. The following observations provide conv...tthe theory: (1) Abundantfragmentsand ballsof Kiruna-Luossavaara ore are foundin the hanging wall of...becauseiron ores of the Kiruna type have not been found in rocks which are older than the Kiruna Keratophyres(previouslycalled...volcanic-marineenvironment. The sedimentarynature of the Kiruna iron ores must be stressedin their classification
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Yukon, the Kiruna iron ore district, Sweden, and the southeast Missouri iron ore district, and a review...magmatic zone of northwest Canada, the Bayan Obo district of China, and perhaps the Redbank breccia pipes...that the ore deposits generally referred to as 'Kiruna-type' should be considered a subset of this larger...Wernecke Mountains, Yukon, and the Mount Painter district, South Australia (Coats and Blisset, 1971; Lambert...as the giant iron ore deposits of the Kiruna district, Sweden, and the Fe-REE deposits of Bayan Obo,
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evolution of the Ernest Henry Fe oxide–Cu–Au ore system, Cloncurry district, northwest Queensland, Australia...2006 Ó Springer-Verlag 2006 Abstract The Ernest Henry Cu–Au deposit was formed within a zoned, post-peak...andesite and diorite (ca 1740–1660 Ma). The Ernest Henry hydrothermal system was formed by two cycles of...+61-3-99055764 Fax: +61-3-99054903 Introduction Ernest Henry (Fig. 1) is the largest of a diverse group of Fe...Fe oxide–Cu–Au deposits in the Cloncurry district (Williams 1998; Williams and Pollard 2003). With a resource
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name=”sbnd”/¿Cl metasomatic alteration, Norrbotten County, Sweden Nelson F. Bernal, Sarah A. Gleeson, Martin...name=”sbnd”/¿Cl metasomatic alteration, Norrbotten County, Sweden, Chemical Geology (2017), doi:10.1016/j...regional Na-Cl metasomatic alteration, Norrbotten County, Sweden SC RI Nelson F. Bernala*, Sarah A....alteration/Na-skarns (IOCG-PS) from Norrbotten County in Northern Sweden have been SC analysed for halogen...alteration. Later AC CE P in the history of the Norrbotten district components of the RM alteration were recycled
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Accepted Manuscript Tracing the fluid evolution of the Kiruna iron oxide apatite deposits using zircon, monazite...Richard Wirth , Tracing the fluid evolution of the Kiruna iron oxide apatite deposits using zircon, monazite... ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT Tracing the fluid evolution of the Kiruna iron oxide apatite deposits using zircon, monazite... Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden c Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences...vicinity of Kiruna in northern Sweden is poorly understood, despite a century-long mining history and
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•UDYARD FRIETSCIt Abstract Iron ores of the Kiruna type are unusualformationsrestrictedboth in time... or, less com•nonly,of an irregular ORESof the Kiruna type,with their highconcentra- shape. In many deposits...y.old (Frietsch,1977). composition, ores of the Kiruna type can be subIn addition,thereexist minor depositsin...Mexico, Chile, and Peru havebeenassigned to the Kiruna ore type (Geijer, ore. Locally the wall rock is...of the Kiruna type of ore in Sweden and part (for example,E1Laco), Recent. The ores of the Kiruna type
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Ores at Kiruna TIBOR PARJ•K LKAB Prospektering, Box5801, Linndgatan5, 102 48 Stockholm,Sweden Abstract...Abstract In the Kiruna-typeiron ores,apatitehasbeen regardedasthe mostconspicuous mineral. Advocatesof the...However,a closerexaminationof deposits classifiedas Kiruna-typeores showsthat they include both apatite-bearingand...this respect, there are similaritiesbetween the Kiruna-type ores and other types. Apatite banding similar...environmentsgeologicallysimilar to thoseof the Kiruna-typeores.There are severalexamplesof skarn-typeores
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Luleå University of Technology, SE-971 87 Luleå, Sweden LGCA, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, Maison...Natural History, Stockholm, Box 50007, SE-10405, Sweden d University of Liège Bat. B20, B-4000 Sart Tilman...large parts of Finland, NW Russia, Norway, and Sweden (Fig. 1). The oldest rocks yet found in the shield...for its Fe-oxide deposits, including the famous Kiruna-type Fe-apatite deposits. The genesis of these...Hitzman et al., 1992) origin have been advocated. The Kiruna-type Fe-apatite deposits have recently also been
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The IOA deposits studied are also referred to Kiruna-type IOA deposits that are characterized by Tipoor...and Salobo from the Carajas district in Brazil, Olympic Dam and Ernest Henry from the Gawler craton and...Cloncurry district, respectively, in Australia, Candelaria from the Central Andes district in Chile,...include Kiruna (or Kiirunavaara) and Rektorn from the Norrbotten district of northern Sweden, El Romeral...Australia, Pilot Knob and Pea Ridge from the Missouri district in the USA, and Lyon Mountain from the Grenville
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The IOA deposits studied are also referred to Kiruna-type IOA deposits that are characterized by Tipoor...and Salobo from the Carajas district in Brazil, Olympic Dam and Ernest Henry from the Gawler craton and...Cloncurry district, respectively, in Australia, Candelaria from the Central Andes district in Chile,...include Kiruna (or Kiirunavaara) and Rektorn from the Norrbotten district of northern Sweden, El Romeral...Australia, Pilot Knob and Pea Ridge from the Missouri district in the USA, and Lyon Mountain from the Grenville
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pervasive stage I sodic alteration formed widespread albite and local scapolite. It was subsequently replaced... Sampling site of molybdenite 1690 32 Ma Gasa Town Luzhijiang faul t z one 26 N 0 N 0 Jurassic... C. Simplified geologic map of the Dahongshan district and its relationship to the Red River fault zone...Geology and Mineral Resources (N9GBYBGMR), but mining did not begin until 1997. The deposit is hosted...along an E-W–trending river section within the mining district. The group has been previously divided into
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
http://www.tandfonline.com Sorkhe-Dizaj seems to be a Kiruna-type iron oxideapatite (IOA) deposit (Nabatian...et al. (2005) and Williams (2010) consider that Kiruna-type deposits cannot be categorized as IOCG deposits...Olympic Dam (Oreskes and Einaudi 1992) and Ernest Henry (Mark et al. 2000) in Australia, La Candelaria (Ullrich...mineralization (Chen et al. 2011). The origin of the Kiruna-type (IOA) deposits, in contrast to that of IOCG...several genetic models are proposed, particularly for Kiruna deposit (Frietsch 1984; Nyström and Henriquez 1994;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Precambrian iron oxide (P-rich) or magnetite-apatite (Kiruna-type) deposits have a different temporal distribution... Introduction THE DISCOVERY in 1975 by Western Mining Corporation of the giant Olympic Dam breccia-hosted...settings (e.g., Kerrich et al., 2005), regional to district-scale geologic environments, igneous or basinal...lack of clear distinction between regional- or district-scale 0361-0128/98/000/000-00 $6.00 and deposit-scale...2000 Kiruna Malmberget Age (Ma) Olympic Dam 1500 Pea Ridge MIDDLE PROTEROZOIC Ernest Henry Benson
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inferred in IOA deposits (e.g., Kiruna district in Sweden, Bafq district in Iran). In the present study...Brooke Zone, Mag Hill, the JLD showing, the Terra mine, and the Dennis showing from the Great Bear magmatic...Iron oxide apatite deposits, otherwise known as Kiruna-type magnetite-apatite deposits, include Kirunavaara...Kirunavaara and other deposits of the Norrbotten region, northern Sweden (Frietsch & Perdahl 1995, Nyström...Westhues et al. 2016); Grängesberg ore body, central Sweden (Jonsson et al. 2016); the Great Bear magmatic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
10 October 2013 Keywords: Missouri (USA) iron district Proterozoic Magnetite Hematite IOCG-IOA a b s...Pea Ridge. These deposits have similarities to “Kiruna-type” iron deposits, and likely formed either by...replacement of volcanic rocks. Iron oxides within all district deposits are dominantly magnetite and hematite...resource known in the district (~40 Mt of 0.8% Cu), as yet undeveloped. The district also has steeply dipping...hydrothermal solutions, being similar in some aspects to “Kiruna-type” deposits; (2) iron oxide–copper–gold (IOCG)
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Mesoproterozoic Iron Oxide-Apatite Mineralization, Cheever Mine, Eastern Adirondacks, NY Jeffrey R. Chiarenzelli...2018   Abstract: At the Cheever Mine, located in the eastern Adirondack Mountains of...cross-cutting metasomatically altered, magnetite-bearing, albite-rich leucogranitic host rocks of the Lyon Mountain...is proposed for the ore’s genesis. At the Cheever Mine, magmatic hydrothermal fluids and/or post-intrusion...Grenville Province; Lyon Mountain Granite; Cheever Mine 1. Introduction Iron oxide-apatite (IOA) deposits
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LA-ICP-MS U–Pb dating of metavolcanics of Norrbotten, Sweden: Records of extended geological histories...within the major iron ore province of Norrbotten, northern Sweden, where titanite is a common phase associated...Laser ablation; Titanite; U–Pb; In situ; ICP-MS; Norrbotten 1. Introduction Since the advent of laser ablation...background The major iron ore province of northern Sweden is hosted within Palaeoproterozoic rocks, mainly...95–1.85 Ga) in age, which extend from northern Sweden into Finland and parts of northern Norway (Fig
 
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