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Tourmaline from
Björkdal Mine, Sandfors, Skellefte mining district, Skellefteå, Västerbotten County, Sweden


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Tourmaline' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:AD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
Comments:Dravitic tourmaline
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Tourmaline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Björkdal Mine, Sandfors, Skellefte mining district, Skellefteå, Västerbotten County, Sweden
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:720225
Long-form Identifier:1:3:720225:4
GUID (UUID V4):1aa81536-3a12-4a42-b9b0-0b5c1a6e712b
Nearest other occurrences of Tourmaline
0.4km (0.2 miles) Hebbersfors (Häbbersfors), Sandfors, Skellefte mining district, Skellefteå, Västerbotten County, Sweden
12.9km (8.0 miles) Boliden Mine, Boliden, Skellefte mining district, Skellefteå, Västerbotten County, Sweden
14.1km (8.8 miles) Åkerberg mine, Skellefte mining district, Skellefteå, Västerbotten County, Sweden
16.2km (10.1 miles) Varuträsk, Skellefteå, Västerbotten County, Sweden
24.8km (15.4 miles) Petiknäs mine, Boliden, Skellefte mining district, Skellefteå, Västerbotten County, Sweden
52.0km (32.3 miles) Holmtjärn Mine, Norsjö, Västerbotten County, Sweden
59.8km (37.2 miles) Mensträsk, Norsjö, Västerbotten County, Sweden
73.6km (45.7 miles) Kluntarna, Piteå, Norrbotten County, Sweden
83.1km (51.6 miles) Lainijaur Mine (Lainejaur), Malå, Västerbotten County, Sweden
95.0km (59.0 miles) Laver Mine, Älvsbyn, Norrbotten County, Sweden
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Characteristics of Tourmaline and Scheelite from the Björkdal Gold Deposit, Northern Sweden: Evidence of an...Abstract The Björkdal quartz vein-hosted gold deposit is located ~25 km northwest of Skellefte in northern...northern Sweden, within a Paleoproterozoic volcanosedimentary sequence at the margin of a quartz-monzodiorite...eastern open pit within the Björkdal deposit contain quartz, scheelite, tourmaline, calcite, and sulfides...is variably replaced by biotite or actinolite. Tourmaline from the quartz veins has low total REE contents
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Structural Evolution of the Björkdal Gold Deposit, Skellefte District, Northern Sweden: Implications for Early...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...Abstract The Björkdal gold deposit is situated in the eastern part of the Paleoproterozoic Skellefte district...district in northern Sweden. The Skellefte district constitutes a 1.89 to 1.88 Ga volcanic arc with numerous
Report (chapter)
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
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)
Iceland, Sea-floor massive sulphide deposits, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. A 1:10,000,000 scale map of...features of the territory, followed by a brief mining history (including the famous 1898 photograph of...(Mo), followed by the equally quite famous in the mining and exploration community, Cantung and Mactung...The same author follows with a brief history of mining and a description of the ca. 3.7 Ga Isua Algoma-type...begins with an Introduction on the geology and mining history of Norway by Rognvald Boyd. Peter Ihlen
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS OF PYRITE FROM THE C QUARTZ-TOURMALINE VEIN OF THE SISCOE GOLD DEPOSIT, VAL D’OR, QUEBEC:...3P8 Abstract The Siscoe mine was one of the richest in the Val d’Or mining camp, producing 27.5 tonnes...silver from 1929 to 1949. The C quartz-tourmaline vein at the Siscoe mine, which is the youngest auriferous...fault. The vein comprises mainly alternating tourmaline- and quartzrich layers, and gold occurs commonly...alteration is characterized by the occurrence of tourmaline, pyrite, and calcite. In this study, we report
Corporate Document
3 December 2003 Fennoscandian Exploration and Mining 2003 Rovaniemi, Finland December 2003 GTK CONTENTS...3.3.2 Pirilä, Rantasalmi 4. SWEDEN 4.1 Aitik 4.2 Pahtohavare 4.3 Björkdal 4.4 Åkerberg 4.5 Nautanen, Gällivare...described in this paper. In addition, some samples from Sweden, Czech Republic, Russian Far East, Ukraine, and...dipping lodes at the contacts of conformable tourmaline-bearing pegmatites and is characterised by ductile...is characterised by the formation of biotite, tourmaline, pyrrhotite and arsenopyrite. Hand specimen description
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deposit, Skellefte district, Sweden: new U–Pb age constraints and implications at deposit and district scale...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...considered to be the onset of volcanism in the Skellefte group; (2) the volcano-sedimentary succession...of the Skellefte district; and (3) an early (synvolcanic) deformation event in the Skellefte group is
Journal (volume)
enrichment, epigene processes, Precambrian , Finland, Sweden, Norway, Canada, Australia Pekka A. Nurmi: Geological...Finland , Bulletin 351 from typical lodes either by mine geologists or the authors. All sampies were to be...number of gold mines: Enäsen (in 1984) and Björkdal (1988) in Sweden; as weIl as Bidjovagge (1985) in Norway;...Svecofennian complex in southwestern Finland and southern Sweden (Fig. 1). Gold mineralization in the Archean greenstone... Sampled for Ihls study Oth er -tr Operat ing mine Fig. 1. Major geologieal provinees and loeation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
History, P.O. Box 50 007, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden b c a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...controlled mineralization in the Somero-Tammela gold district in the Häme belt (Fig. 1). For this purpose samples...SSAC could be traced to the SW to Bergslagen in Sweden containing similar arc-type rocks (Valbracht et...recorded in the Bothnian Basin and elsewhere in Sweden (Lundqvist et al., 1998; Korsman et al., 1999;...lodes (Fig. 8), often associated with quartz-tourmaline veins. The mineralization is associated with
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Stachel and coworkers18) and the diamonds from Premier mine in South Africa, which are particularly beautiful...The youngest are E-type diamonds from the Orapa mine, Botswana, at 990 m.y.,14 the oldest the 3300-m...giving the 1–3 wt% Nb2O5 normally required for a mining operation. During these latter stages, pyrochlore...Welgefonden 343 and Rietfontein 513 in the Naboomspruit District of the Northern Province. It contains a dominantly...the igneous rocks of the VSC in the Rio Tinto district post-date the stratiform massive sulphide sheets
Book
Centre of Advanced Mining and Metallurgy Luleå University of Technology Luleå Sweden ISSN 2365-0559 Mineral...acknowledged with the third Fennoscandian Exploration and Mining Special Award for his outstanding lifetime contributions...59 73 The Fennoscandian Shield 5 The Skellefte District . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...established cover four major mineral belts in Europe: Skellefte-Vihanti-Pyhäsalmi in Fennoscandia, Forsudetic...at visualizing the geological evolution of the district. 3-D predictivity maps are also presented using
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION BETWEEN WHITE MICA AND TOURMALINE Stephan KLEMME§ Institut für Mineralogie, Universität...Heidelberg, Germany Abstract High-grade metamorphic tourmaline and white mica from the Broken Hill area, NSW...and Ce, and Th, partition preferentially into tourmaline, whereas Rb, Ba, W, Sn, and Nb and Ta are preferentially...mica and tourmaline, with the white mica being some 10‰ lower in d11B than coexisting tourmaline, which...partitioning, tourmaline, mica, boron isotopes, Broken Hill, Australia. Sommaire La tourmaline et le mica
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GRANITIC PEGMATITE IN FORSHAMMAR, BERGSLAGEN PROVINCE, SWEDEN: AN EMPA, XRD AND LA–ICP–MS STUDY Peter BAČÍK§...JONSSON Geological Survey of Sweden, Box 670, SE–751 28 Uppsala, Sweden, and Department of Earth Sciences...Uppsala, Sweden Per NYSTEN Geological Survey of Sweden, Box 670, SE–751 28 Uppsala, Sweden Viktor KANICKÝ...Czech Republic Abstract Green to grayish green tourmaline crystals (up to 10 cm across), with distinct...granitic pegmatite, central Bergslagen province, Sweden. Tourmaline contains inclusions of zircon and xenotime-(Y)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
worldwide, for example, from the Cu-W-bearing tourmaline breccia pipe of Ilkwang (Korea) [14], Kimbosan...[1] and several tungsten deposits in the Kigezi district in southwest Uganda (e.g., Ruhizha, Nyamalilo...different fold directions interfere and give the mine areas a complex domal structure [1–3,5]. The anticlinal...concretions, which have often been filled by quartz and tourmaline. These quartz infillings are connected by fractures...tunnels of the Nyakabingo mine and two concentrates from the Gifurwe mine were taken. Ore concentrates
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
scheelite from late-metamorphic veins at the Macraes Mine, the latter of which is enriched in REEs, Y and...Sciences, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden 3 Geology Department, University of Otago, PO... including the currently producing Macraes gold mine. A full range of metamorphic grades is exposed in...extensional veins (Mortensen et al. 2010). The Macraes mine is composed of open pit and underground developments...Zone; Fig. 1). In addition to Au at the Macraes Mine, a variety of other trace elements (including As
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
southeastern part of the ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT mining area, the Lower Triassic Qingtianbao Formation...Franklin, J.M., 1996. Sm-Nd dating of scheelite and tourmaline: NU Implications for the genesis of Archean... K.L., 2016. Scheelite, apatite, calcite and tourmaline compositions from the late Archean Hutti orogenic...Characteristics of Tourmaline and D Scheelite from the Björkdal Gold Deposit, Northern Sweden: Evidence of...alkaline IP T porphyries in the Beiya gold district, western Yunnan. Acta Petrologica Sinica 22, 631-643
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Economic Geology, v. 110, pp. 337–353 Diverse Tourmaline Compositions from Orogenic Gold Deposits in the...gold mine in India at Hutti, as well as two satellite mines at Hira-Buddini and Uti. Tourmaline is a...related to tourmaline precipitation and gold mineralization. Tourmalines at Hutti occur as tourmaline-calcite...are present at Hira-Buddini. Earliest type I tourmaline has moderate Fe content (up to 1.46 apfu), high...relatively high X-site vacancies (up to 21%). This tourmaline type has relatively low total REEs (0.21–1.05×
Journal (issue)
Silviu UDUBAȘA, Gheorghe UDUBAȘA Keeping alive the mining tradition/heritage: the museum mines and geoparks...Mircea GEORGESCU The sustainable development in mining ……………………………………………………….…...................... ...GIS mineral potential modeling in the Skellefte District (Sweden) ……...……………………..................... ...Silviu UDUBAȘA, Gheorghe UDUBAȘA Keeping alive the mining tradition/heritage: the museum mines and geoparks...Mircea GEORGESCU The sustainable development in mining ……………………………………………………….….... 11 Gheorghe ILINCA
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
absence of intrusion within the mining district [28]. within the mining district [28]. Figure 1. (a) Tectonic...Sb-Audeposit deposit(3.7 (3.7 Mt Mt @4.5 @4.5 wt. % two mining The Longshan % Sb Sb and and 4.6 4.6 g/t g/tAu...g/tAu, Au,[53]) [53])contains contains two mining The Longshan Sb-Au deposit (3.7 Mt @4.5 wt.include % Sb...Sb and 4.6 g/t Au, [53]) contains two mining zones: Longshan and Xiejiashan (Figure 2). These 27 NE-striking...Simplified geological map of the Longshan mining district in Longshan deposit, South Figure Simplifiedgeological
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Exposed sedimentary rocks in the Gaojiabang ore district include Cambrian, Ordovician, and Silurian rocks...intrusion that occupies the eastern part of the ore district (Fig. 2a). The Huangboling Formation is the main...Franklin, J.M., 1996. Sm-Nd dating of scheelite and tourmaline: Implications for the genesis of Archean gold...development of the intrusive-hosted Björkdal Au deposit, northern Sweden. International Journal of Earth...evolution of mineralizing fluids in the Morococha district, Peru. Economic Geology, 110, 39-71. Chang, Y
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the MREE enrichment of the type observed in the Björkdal scheelite arises from the 2Ca2+ = REE3+ + Na+...K2 0.51234 0.79204 Bjorkdal Au deposit Northern Sweden vein type 2-91 0.51349 0.70260 Billstrom et al...University of Geosciences, and the Anhui Zhongke Mining Co., Ltd. for their kind support in the fieldwork...veins related to porphyry intrusives, Hollinger Mine. Economic Geology, 39, 340–348. Anglin, C.D., Jonasson...Franklin, J.M. (1996) Sm-Nd dating of scheelite and tourmaline: Implications for the genesis of Archean gold
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
is a medium-sized deposit located in the Dushan County, South Guizhou, China. Calcite is the dominant...hydrothermal minerals such as fluorite, scheelite, tourmaline and calcite have been successfully used to determine...deposit is located in the southeastern area of Dushan County, Guizhou province, China, and is one of the important... J. M. (1996) Sm– Nd dating of scheelite and tourmaline: Implications for the genesis of Archean gold...characteristics of tourmaline and scheelite from the Björkdal Gold Deposit, Northern Sweden: Evidence of an
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Charmitan gold deposit in the Nuratau Mountains gold district in Western Uzbekistan (South Tien Shan orogenic...northeast of the district town of Koshrabad within the Nuratau Mountains gold district in Western Uzbekistan...Uzbekistan. This district forms the eastern continuation of the Kyzylkum gold district within the South Tien...Guzhumsai mine to the west, the Promezhutochnoe area in the centre and the Charmitan mine to the east...samples from the underground workings of the Charmitan mine (+720 m level) and from open pits 10 and 11 (also
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
 
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