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Electrum from
Aitik Mine, Gällivare, Norrbotten County, Sweden


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Gold var: Electrum
Formula:(Au,Ag)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Electrum data
Locality Data:Click here to view Aitik Mine, Gällivare, Norrbotten County, Sweden
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:437377
Long-form Identifier:1:3:437377:3
GUID (UUID V4):d3fb448a-a0fd-443a-a996-81b1946b6b03
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Molybdenite in the Aitik Cu-Au-Ag-(Mo) Deposit and Its Southern Extension in the Northern Norrbotten Ore District...District, Northern Sweden Christina Wanhainen 1,*, Wondowossen Nigatu 2, David Selby 3, Claire L. McLeod 4...87 Luleå, Sweden Gunnarn Exploration AB, Blåvagen 207 Box 149, SE 923 23 Storuman, Sweden; E-Mail: w...Department, Boliden Mineral AB, SE 936 81 Boliden, Sweden; E-Mail: roger.nordin@boliden.com Division of Process...Technology, Boliden Mineral AB, SE 936 81 Boliden, Sweden; E-Mail: nils-johan.bolin@boliden.com * Author
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Cu (-Au) occurrences, Kiruna area, northern Sweden Received: 25 May 2005 / Accepted: 10 June 2005...Springer-Verlag 2005 Abstract The northern Norrbotten area in northern Sweden, is an important mining district...characteristics as most other epigenetic deposits in Norrbotten. The host rock has been affected by strong albite...Luleå University of Technology, 971 87 Luleå, Sweden E-mail: Asa.Edfelt@ltu.se R. N. Armstrong Department...representing a slightly later product. Keywords Sweden Æ Proterozoic Æ IOCG Æ Hydrothermal alteration
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Luleå University of Technology, SE-971 87 Luleå, Sweden Geological Survey of Finland/Geologian tutkimuskeskus...Finland Boliden Mineral AB, SE-936 81 Boliden, Sweden Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter...comprehensive ore characterization to aid in early mine planning, uncrushed rock samples are most suitable...deposit in Northern Sweden (Figure 1a,b), located close to the world-class Aitik Cu-Au deposit where...native Au, electrum (Au-Ag-alloy, Ag > 20%) hessite (Ag2 Te), acanthite (Ag2 S), native Au, electrum native
Corporate Document
Rantasalmi 4. SWEDEN 4.1 Aitik 4.2 Pahtohavare 4.3 Björkdal 4.4 Åkerberg 4.5 Nautanen, Gällivare 4.6 Jälketkurkkio...described in this paper. In addition, some samples from Sweden, Czech Republic, Russian Far East, Ukraine, and...molybdenite, pentlandite, a large set of tellurides, electrum, and gold. All molybdenite is related to a wide-spread...cratons in the northeast and collision of the Norrbotten and Karelian cratons in the west. This resulted...ore" was extracted and treated at the Pahtavaara mine plant (Markku Kilpelä, pers. comm. 1999). The deposit
Conference Proceedings (Volume)
Biennial SGA Meeting 12–15 AUGUST 2013, UPPSALA, SWEDEN Mineral deposit research for a high-tech world...Biennial SGA Meeting 12–15 AUGUST 2013, UPPSALA, SWEDEN Mineral deposit research for a high-tech world...Meeting was organised by the Geological Survey of Sweden with assistance from Uppsala University, Stockholm...Biennial SGA Meeting, 12–15 August 2013, Uppsala, Sweden. ISBN 978-91-7403-207-9. 1882 pp. Suggested citation...Biennial SGA Meeting, 12–15 August 2013, Uppsala, Sweden, ISBN 978-91-7403-207-9, 1450–1452. This publication
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
range of Precambrian geological environments in Sweden and Finland during the last two decades. Under-explored...Saattopora (Finland), Boliden, Ädelfors, and Enåsen (Sweden), and Eidsvoll and Bidjovagge (Norway), is now...and Björkdal, Åkerberg, Harnäs, and Pahtohavare (Sweden) represent a new generation of gold mines, and...interest. One hundred representative deposits in Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Russia are discussed in this...503,700 km2, of which 25.0 percent is located in Sweden, 24.9 percent in northwestern Russia, 23.1 percent
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Craton and Cloncurry district, Australia; Norrbotten, Sweden; Wernecke Mountains and Great Bear Batholith...area around the Ernest Henry mine. These holes were selected from both the mine lease—the area immediately...term lease—the exploration lease enveloping the mine lease (cf. Fig. 2a). These results provide clear...The main shear zone foliations and faults at the mine dip moderately SE, and the breccia-hosted orebody...shear zones (cf. Fig. 3i– n). S2 fabrics outside the mine lease are locally overprinted by albite veining
Conference Proceedings (Volume)
Biennial SGA Meeting 12–15 AUGUST 2013, UPPSALA, SWEDEN Mineral deposit research for a high-tech world...Biennial SGA Meeting 12–15 AUGUST 2013, UPPSALA, SWEDEN Mineral deposit research for a high-tech world...Meeting was organised by the Geological Survey of Sweden with assistance from Uppsala University, Stockholm...Biennial SGA Meeting, 12–15 August 2013, Uppsala, Sweden. ISBN 978-91-7403-207-9. 1882 pp. Suggested citation...Biennial SGA Meeting, 12–15 August 2013, Uppsala, Sweden, ISBN 978-91-7403-207-9, 1450–1452. This publication
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
open pit mines, and application to the Martha Au–Ag mine, Waihi, New Zealand Devin N. Castendyk a a,* ...applies the method to the Martha epithermal Au–Ag mine, Waihi, New Zealand. Heterogeneous ore deposits...nuisances depending on lake water chemistry. Many recent mine management strategies favor 0883-2927/$ - see front...into public amenities that will exist long after mine closure, as recreational areas, theme parks, scientific...Surface water comprises streams flowing into the mine pit, direct precipitation onto the lake surface
Book (volume)
explain the ideas of those who have worked on it (and mine, where they differ from those readily available...other three, are arranged from north to south. For Sweden, a general summary of the metallogeny of that country...the one that contains the iron ores of central Sweden in which the numerous ore bodies are of a few 5...deposits in the province of Norrbotten, Aitik, Laisvall, and Kiruna-Gällivare, that are not in any way genetically...countries: Ireland England Scotland 3 7 1 Wales Norway Sweden 1 7 17 Finland Poland USSR 12 2 30. These 80
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gold inclusions in py2 (Fig. 9G), associated with electrum or gold telluride; (2) infilling fractures in...shield (Weihed et al., 2005), with active mines at Aitik (Wanhainen et al., 2003; Wanhainen, 2005), Tallberg...al., 2003). According to Wanhainen (2005), the Aitik copper-gold deposit is a porphyry that was modified...disseminations in the host rock with coeval chlorite, electrum, and tellurides. The py2 displays a specific chemical...location of Au-Cu mineralization at the Boddington gold mine, Western Australia: Economic Geology, v. 93, p.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1974). The ma- Rico de Potosiand anotherAg-Zn-Pb mine in a volcanic jor antimonydepositsin Bolivia (Fig...reservesfor one orebody("bolson"in Spanish) Kharma Mine measuring20 X 65 m havebeen calculatedto amountto...rtedinto a morpho- tion like that at the Kharma mine has been detected. This logical depressionby the...Ag content of the stibnite decreasestoward deeper mine levels. No unidirectional trendsrelated to depth... 3e). Above the 3,540-m elevation in the Kharma mine, the pyrite-stibnitemineral assemblage gradesinto
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Columbia. The most notable of these is the Magnum Mine, which is a similar “siliceous breccia with quartz...the Ernest Henry IOCG, where the Au content of electrum ranges between 65 and 95 wt % (Foster et al.,...and Martinsson, O., 2003, The Aitik Cu-Au-Ag deposit in northern Sweden: A product of high salinity fluids:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
are chalcopyrite and sphalerite; pentlandite and electrum are rare. Quartz–arsenopyrite–tourmaline and quartz...deposit: 1—electrum Four types of minerals of the Au-Ag series were recognized in the deposit: 1—electrum 25–32...and pyrrhotite; 2—electrum trum with arsenopyrite, löllingite, pyrrhotite; 2—electrum 25–32 33–47 mas.%...high Ag–Sb electrum. These mineral aggregates consist of electrum, Fe and Sb Ag–Sb electrum. These mineral...mineral aggregates consist of electrum, Fe and Sb oxides, Ag chlorides, ore high Ag–Sb These mineral aggregates
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
corresponds to Cu-bearing (to 2.9 wt % Cu) kustelite and electrum (fineness 280–514%) or Au–Ag solid solution (fineness...conditions at the Aitik Au–Ag–Cu porphyry Minerals 2019, 9, 758 10 of 24 deposit (Sweden) and the hydrothermal-hypergene...; Burke, M. Formation and aggregation of gold (electrum) nanoparticles in epithermal ores. Minerals 2017...Zircon-Bearing Chromitites from the Ayios Stefanos Mine, Othris Massif, Greece: Assessment of an Unconventional...2003; pp. 285–314. Barton, P.; Toulmin, J.P. The electrum-tarnish method for the determination of the fugacity
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
occurs as lamellar intergrowths of Au-Cu alloys and electrum formed as 202 exsolution products of solid solution...They are intergrown with mercury- 250 bearing electrum (Fig. 4c,d). Garnet-pyroxene rodingite also contains...established that the inclusions of 252 mercury-bearing electrum in auricupride are concentrically zoned from center...solutions under hydrothermal conditions at the 273 Aitik Au-Ag-Cu porphyry deposit and the formation of Au-Cu...well, also 489 vary widely, from kustelite and electrum in association with auricupride and tetra-auricupride
Report (issue)
aa, 16H7 . t Oretlt. ft /Mm# »f.i Falu copper mine has been continuously mined for more than 900 years...traditions in Scandinavia and Finland. In Bergslagen, Sweden, numerous mines produced Cu, Fe and Ag already...copper was mined from 1644 until recently. The first mine in Finland was the Ojamo iron ore deposit, which...of the most important of these occur in northern Sweden such as the Kiruna iron ores, the sulphide ores...Skellefte district, the Laisvall Pb-mine and the Aitik Cu-Au mine. The sulphide ores in the Outokumpu
Book
R. (1919) On the origin of Kuroko of the Kosaka mine. J. Geol. Soc. Japan, 26, 107-132 (in Japanese)..... 1.4.3.2. Estimate of temperatures from the electrum-sphalerite-pyriteargentite assemblage ..........across the Main and the Sanjin deposits of Hishikari mine (Ibaraki and Suzuki, 1993). 12 Chapter 1 TABLE...base-metal-rich deposits, Type 2: disseminated-type deposits Mine Deposit type Au (M.T.) Ag (M.T.) Ag/Au Hokuryu...Hydrothermal Ore Deposits 13 TABLE 1.2 (continued) Mine Deposit type Au (M.T.) Ag (M.T.) Ag/Au Other
Report (volume)
and evaluation of the Pea Ridge iron ore mine (Washington County, Missouri) for rare-earth element and precious...area, northern Sweden 16 7-8. Maps showing: 7. Geology of the Kiruna iron district, Sweden 17 Contents ...oxide-dominated matrix. On the basis of drilling prior to mine development these rocks were thought to be conglomerates...view, other deposits in this class include Kiruna (Sweden), Bayan Obo (Inner Mongolia), and Pea Ridge (Missouri)...from Olympic Dam to the Midcontinent to Kiruna, Sweden (see program following references). The participants
Conference Proceedings (Volume)
Biennial SGA Meeting 12–15 AUGUST 2013, UPPSALA, SWEDEN Mineral deposit research for a high-tech world...Biennial SGA Meeting 12–15 AUGUST 2013, UPPSALA, SWEDEN Mineral deposit research for a high-tech world...Meeting was organised by the Geological Survey of Sweden with assistance from Uppsala University, Stockholm...Biennial SGA Meeting, 12–15 August 2013, Uppsala, Sweden. ISBN 978-91-7403-207-9. 1882 pp. Suggested citation...Biennial SGA Meeting, 12–15 August 2013, Uppsala, Sweden, ISBN 978-91-7403-207-9, 1450–1452. This publication
Report (issue)
Metallogenesis in the Kiruna-Skellefte Belt of Northern Sweden A History of Theoretical Developments in Carbonate-Hosted...«2. of the eccisemene of the Misima Gold-Silver Mine, Papua New Guinea ........ .G. I. Wilson and R....C. Barwick eae ie Discovery. The McLaughlin Gold Mine, Napa, Yolo, and Lake Counties, California Fre...is arbitrary, because concepts have changed in mine was in production until the 1970s. Some indi- cations...with new discoveries, augmented geologic the Los mine (Cronstedt, 1754). The alloy was called knowledge
Book
Apatite Iron Ores in the Kiruna District, Northern Sweden: A Comparative Study of Mineral Liberation Analysis...Apatite Iron Ores in the Kiruna District, Northern Sweden: A Comparative Study of Mineral Liberation Analysis...for use in 3D modelling during exploration work or mine planning. While they fully characterize compositional...quantitative manner with respect to their significance for mine planning and mineral processing [25]. The main focus...Purevgerel, S. Geometallurgy—A route to more resilient mine operations. Minerals 2018, 12, 560. [CrossRef] Compan
Journal (issue)
the largest underground Cu mine. This development will add 50 years of mine life and 17 Mt of Cu metal...detail for Cu, including yearly production, yearly mine capacity. (c) Resource-reserve classification of...USGS, 2016; B = billion, M = million; Mine Production and Mine Capacity are tonnes/year). GEOCHEMICAL...few decades (and to justify the cost of building a mine to extract the ore), there is no point in spending...the origin of several types of deposits. World Cu mine production of about 18.7 Mt in 2014 came from about
Book (volume)
; Burke, M. Formation and aggregation of gold (electrum) nanoparticles in epithermal ores. Minerals 2017...regardless of the Au/Ag ratio in it, and terms “electrum” for Au/Ag = 1/1 and “küstelite" for Au/Ag = 1/3...arsenopyrite, löllingite, and pyrrhotite; (2) electrum 33–47 wt% Au in intergrowths with galena, dyscrasite...aurostibite, petzite, calaverite (inclusions <10 μm in electrum of the 2nd type), and yutenbogaardtite. The latter...forms rims around the grains of küstelite and electrum. The gold content in dyscrasite varies from 0
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
differences between Yellowstone’s acid waters and acid mine waters A. CARACAUSI1, M. DITTA1, F. ITALIANO1,...organisms such as these have never been found in acid mine waters of identical pH. In Brimstone Basin, Yellowstone...acid drainages at Norris by Park naturalists. Acid mine waters of the same pH have never been observed to...fly larvae. The most complex life forms in acid mine waters have been ciliates and rotifers living at...presence of abundant organic material from rotting mine timbers and microbial growth [2]. The main difference
 
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