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Diopside from
Falun mine, Falun, Dalarna County, Sweden


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Diopside
Formula:CaMgSi2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Diopside data
Locality Data:Click here to view Falun mine, Falun, Dalarna County, Sweden
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:890070
Long-form Identifier:1:3:890070:8
GUID (UUID V4):f841610f-a474-4d74-b54b-c0bc5eb31591
Nearest other occurrences of Diopside
10.7km (6.6 miles) ⓘGrönsjöberget, BorlĂ€nge, Dalarna County, Sweden
18.4km (11.5 miles) ⓘHornberg mine, Sundborn, Falun, Dalarna County, Sweden
20.9km (13.0 miles) ⓘDigerbergs mines, Leksand, Dalarna County, Sweden
23.0km (14.3 miles) ⓘSjö mine, SvĂ€rdsjö, Falun, Dalarna County, Sweden
29.9km (18.6 miles) ⓘDalskarlbo Mine, Öster Silvberg mining district, SĂ€ter, Dalarna County, Sweden
34.9km (21.7 miles) ⓘVintjĂ€rn mines, SvĂ€rdsjö, Falun, Dalarna County, Sweden
44.4km (27.6 miles) ⓘRyllshyttan, Hedemora, Dalarna County, Sweden
44.8km (27.8 miles) ⓘGarpenberg Norra Mine, Garpenberg, Hedemora, Dalarna County, Sweden
44.9km (27.9 miles) ⓘMalsjöberg ore field, Ludvika, Dalarna County, Sweden
44.9km (27.9 miles) ⓘGarpenberg Södra Mine, Garpenberg, Hedemora, Dalarna County, Sweden
References
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Catalog/List
metallic pebble polished on one side 3.5 x3cm Keweenaw County Michigan USA ÂŁ25 - 4 TALC pure pink massive about...BalmatEdwards Zinc mining district, St Lawrence County ,New York, USA ÂŁ7 14 EPIDIDYMITE pure white-grey...covering small quartz crystals 3x3cm Bwlch I Glas Mine, Tal-y-Bont Ceredigion Wales ÂŁ6 I 19 NIFONTOVITE...1cm long and 3 mm across on very small matrix Fuka Mine, Okayama Japan ÂŁ 15 -20 - TANXALITE-obv:iousblac~...creamy white cleavable like a feldspar 6x3cm ÂŁ25 Fuka Mine,m Okayama Prefecture Japan , (photo left) 23B) smaller
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ARTICLE 3D modelling and sheath folding at the Falun pyritic Zn-Pb-Cu-(Au-Ag) sulphide deposit and implications...in a 1.9 Ga ore district, Fennoscandian Shield, Sweden Tobias C. Kampmann 1 & Michael B. Stephens 1... Abstract Altered and mineralized rocks at the Falun pyritic Zn-Pb-Cu-(Au-Ag) sulphide deposit, situated...dolomite in marble and tremolite-actinolite or diopside-hedenbergite in skarn. The silicate minerals show...SE-971 87 LuleÄ, Sweden 2 Geological Survey of Sweden, Box 670, SE-751 28 Uppsala, Sweden association
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Systematics of Hydrothermal Alteration at the Falun Base Metal Sulfide Deposit and Implications for...Bergslagen Ore District, Fennoscandian Shield, Sweden* Tobias C. Kampmann,1,† Nils F. Jansson,1 Michael...LuleĂ„, Sweden 2 Geological 3 CEMPEG, 4 Faculty Survey of Sweden, Box 670, SE-751 28 Uppsala, Sweden Department...Uppsala University, VillavĂ€gen 16, SE-752 36 Uppsala, Sweden of Geology, Geophysics and Environmental Protection...Department, 936 81 Boliden, Sweden Abstract The Paleoproterozoic Falun Zn-Pb-Cu-(Au-Ag) pyritic sulfide
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
includesthe Falun mine, for centuriesthe world's leading copperproducerand still an importantpyrite mine,andalsothezincdeposits...andalsothezincdeposits of fkmmeberg. Recent studies on Falun and someother districtsby the author,and, somewhat...these countries. 2 Geologist, Geological Survey of Sweden, Stockholm. a Dr. Eskola's report, "Petrology of...author's report on the geology and ore deposits of the Falun district is published in Swedish (with a summary...German) as Series C, no. 275, of the Geol. Survey of Sweden. 4 Ecoa. GEOL.,vol. X., p. 299, I915. 279 280
Report (issue)
Series Geology oftheAndover Mining District, Sussex County, New Jersey" by P. K. Sims and B. F. Leonard**................................ 36 Sulphur Hill mine ................................................................................................. mine ..................................................Geologic map-and structure sections mines, Stlssex County, New Jersey. Geologic map of the Tar New Jersey...and 3a. Crumpled pyroxene-feldspar Sulphur Hill mine. 3b. Fault 4. Detailed along southeast geologic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
redistribution at the Falun pyritic Zn-Pb-Cu-(Au-Ag) sulphide deposit, Bergslagen, Sweden T ⁎ Tobias C....LuleĂ„ University of Technology, SE-971 87 LuleĂ„, Sweden CODES ARC Centre of Excellence and TMVC ARC Research...A R T I C LE I N FO A B S T R A C T Keywords: Falun deposit Bergslagen Fennoscandian Shield Sulphide... Mineralization types at the Palaeoproterozoic Falun base metal sulphide deposit are predominantly pyritic...massive sulphide deposits. The association of the Falun mineralization with elevated Bi is reïŹ‚ected by its
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
anadian M ineral:ogist Vol. 18, pp. 165-171 (1980) SWEDEN: AREA,BERGSLAGEN, cOBALTMINERALSIN THEHALLEFORS...Pb Zn{u-Ag type. The Falun, Sala, Garposits, western Bergslagen, central Sweden. A review penberg and...solutions during emplacement of late orogenic or (in Sweden called hiilleflintas whete finely cryspostorogenic...intruded and surrounded by graniter ysis, Bergslagen, Sweden. of at least two generations during the l80G2000...cobalt du Bergslagen, nous proposons comme Gladhammar mine produced 89.6Vo of the total, m6canisme g6n6tigue
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in the Stollberg Ore Field, Bergslagen District, Sweden Katherine S. Frank,1 Paul G. Spry,1,† Hein Raat... Exploration Department, Garpenberg SE-776 98, Sweden of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources...SE-971 87, Sweden 4 Geological Survey of Sweden, P.O. Box 670, Uppsala SE-751 28, Sweden Abstract The...occurs in the Bergslagen region of south-central Sweden, a polydeformed ca. 1.9 Ga igneous province dominated...province on the Fennoscandian Shield in south-central Sweden (Fig. 1). It hosts thousands of mineral occurrences
Journal (issue)
Pyrosmalite-(Fe) from the Bjelke mine, Nordmark, Filipstad, VĂ€rmland, Sweden ...............................from near the Stifle claim, Georgetown, El Dorado County, California .....................................PYROSMALITE(Fe) crystals on matrix, 7 cm, from the Bjelke mine, Sweden. Mim Mineralogical Museum collection, Beirut...from the recent discovery at the N’Chwaning III mine in South Africa. Chris also has a small collection...MINERALS LIMITED Azurite with Malachite | Milpillas Mine, Mexico | 4.5 x 3.4 x 1.9cm orders@crystalclassics
Report (chapter)
LuleĂ„ University of Technology, SE-971 87 LuleĂ„, Sweden *Correspondence: michael@stephens.se Abstract:...lithotectonic unit, Svecokarelian orogen, south-central Sweden. Three sulphide mines are currently in operation...through the 2.0–1.8 Ga Svecokarelian orogen in Sweden, described in Part I of this Memoir, continues...lithotectonic unit, has been of major signiïŹcance for Sweden, both socially and economically. This metallogenic...lithotectonic unit also contains one of the two places in Sweden investigated in detail down to 1000 m depth to
Catalog/List
section. The largest crystal is 1.5cm high Telirio Mine, Linopolis Minas Gerais Brazil with previous dealers...over 4x4 surface. It's about 1mm thick Cassagna Mine, Ne ,Graveglia Valley, Liguria Italy, I collected...reverse side. overall size 11x 8cm Star of the Congo mine, Lubumbashi, Katanga DR Congo ÂŁ80 13 VANADINITE...size piece 1.5 xl .5cm Cock's orebody, San Antonio Mine, Chihuahua Mexico ÂŁ12 3 15 PYRITE intergrown sharp...fairly rich red brown platy on 1 xl.5cm Varenche Mine, Aosta Italy ÂŁ12 19 MUSCOVITE variety ALURGITE good
Journal (volume)
Survey of Finland Bulletin 306 The ore deposits of Sweden by Rudyard Frietsch Geologinen tutkimuslaitos...Survey of Finland, Bulletin 306 THE ORE DEPOSITS OF SWEDEN by RUDYARD FRIETS CH with one figure in the text...ESPOO 1980 Frietsch, R. 1980. The ore deposits of Sweden. Geological SlIrvey Bulletin 306. 20 pages and...figure. 0/ Finland, The metallogenie provinces of Sweden are reviewed. The Precambrian deposits include...the iron, sulphide and tungsten ores of Central Sweden, the sulphide ores of the Skellefte district, the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
belt in Finland and the Skellefte ore field in Sweden, geotectonically corres­ ponds most closely to...Ladoga area across southern Finland into central Sweden (Fig. 1). A characteris­ tic feature of the associational...accompanied by a large number of ore deposits, including Falun, Harpenberg, Kalvbeken and Sala [6, 19, 2 6 ] ....Finnish part of the mobile belt and in central Sweden. In the former area, one can mention the Ylojarvi...horizons. The ores lie in chlorite-bearing tremolite-diopside skarns, cordierite-anthophyllite metasomatites
Report (chapter)
relationship to Broken Hill-type mineralization in central Sweden J. Parr & D. Rickard S U M M A RY: Broken Hill-type...typically Proterozoic. The Ljusnarsberg area in central Sweden is a microcosm of this mineralization type. One...Precambrian and the Bergslagen province of central Sweden. Of these, the Broken Hill area of NSW contains...its name to the ore type. Bergslagen in central Sweden is the oldest mined area and several of the terms...province. It includes sulphide deposits such as Falun which have been worked systematically since the
Report (volume)
Dikes of 108 Orijarvi 113 amphibolite 118 Diopside-amphibolites The genesis of the 121 amphibolites...Cordiorite-anthophyllite-rock at the Orijarvi mine eordierite-anthophyllite-rock in 189 the Orijarvi... near the Orijarvi of lilijarvi southeast mine of the boundary-zone 221 amphibolite Cummi...andradite-skam Quartz-veins sulphide the skarn lilijarvi mine occurrences contact-aureole Banded Occurrences... Orijdrvi Brodtorp in mine the aureole . . . 243 243 The Aijala mine ore . 234 ore The skarn
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ProterozoicRift Basin,Gruvfsen, Western Bergslagen,Sweden ROB H. HELLINGWERF GeologicalInstitute, Universityof...The sulfideskarnoresof the Gruv‱en mine area, westernBergslagen,Sweden,occurin a sequenceof marblesand ...atomicratio in the skarn-forming silicates(tremolite, diopside,forsterite),and a low Cd contentin sphalerites...metasomatic alteration. The W-Mo-Cu-Sn-Zn-Fe-Pb-As metal Sweden,occur in a sequenceof marblesand metatuffltesintrudedby...Fe, Zn, Cu, Sb, Mn, Ti, granoblastic tremolite,diopside, microcline, forsterite, andS. Standards ofjadeite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
spherosiderite (botryoidal siderite) from the Buklovsky mine at Vyksy, Italic designates the names given by...engineergeologist A.G. Kitaev have visited the Blyumov mine (Southern Urals), from which they have extracted...Kitaev have visited Kochkar gold mines and Semenovsky mine. They have examined monazites and in mines along...pink topazes, rock crystal. At the ProrokoIl’insky mine, they have collected and partially bought pink topazes...visited Murzinka: Buzheninov Log, Mokrusha, Yuzhakov mine, villages of Shaitanka, Kaltashi, and Komarovo.
Journal (volume)
most of the southern part of Finland and central Sweden. The geology of the surrounding area is dominated...a tremolite-quartz rock, cale-silicate rocks (diopside-tremolite skarn) and cordierite-anthophyllite...580° to 740 The main gangue minerals are quartz, diopside, tremolite, dolomite, caleite, anthophyllite and...roughly E - W direction and extends over to central Sweden (Fig.1). The occurrence of sulfide ore in the northern...century under the name "Attu Silvergruva" (Attu Silver Mine). The name was derived from the silver-bearing galena
Report (issue)
assemblages include garnet (andraditegrossular), diopside and other pyroxenes, wollastonite, chlorite, ...Altai-Sayan region (Vakhrushev, 1972). Pyroxenes are diopside-hedenbergite solid solutions having low Mn contents...contents. Vakhrushev (1972) describes diopside (pure to Hd 20) as the characteristic pyroxene of the Altai-Sayan...1987) and the middle Tertiary McCoy deposit are diopside-rich (Hd-jQ to Hdcn, <3% Jo) whereas pyroxenes...typically are zoned from marble, wollastonite, diopside-hedenbergite, and finally grossular-andradite
Journal (issue)
covering works available for the rare book collector, mine ral and fossil collector, historian and researcher...encourage additional investment in a failing mine, salted the mine with high grade gold ore. This ruse was...publication of a frequently mythical brochure known as the mine prospec­ tus. These promotion pieces usually portrayed...ore and verified by a Nmirung expert.n The Bristol Mine was the subject of th.is form of hype as well....amusing reading in our ac­ counts of mineral history. Mine scams were of course, not very amusing to those
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...discussion in detail; these are: GrÀngesberg, LSngban, Falun, and Garpenberq. Also included in this area is the...countries: Ireland England Scotland 3 7 1 Wales Norway Sweden 1 7 17 Finland Poland USSR 12 2 30. These 80
Book (edition)
Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre...of cuprite (bluish grey); North Mine (North Broken Hill Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co.,...vein in jasper (red internal reflections); Madenköy Mine, Çayeli, Rize Province, Black Sea Region, Turkey...argentite reaction rim (greenish grey; arg); Monte Narba Mine, San Vito, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy; PPL...grey), carbonate matrix (dark grey); HimmelsfĂŒrst Mine, Brand-Erbisdorf, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The Lovisa Stratiform Zn-Pb Deposit, Bergslagen, Sweden: Structure, Stratigraphy, and Ore Genesis N. F... LuleÄ University of Technology, 971 87 LuleÄ, Sweden 2 Lovisagruvan 3 Boliden 4 Department 5 Department... 711 77 StrÄssa, Sweden Mineral, Exploration Department, 776 98 Garpenberg, Sweden of Geosciences,...Natural History, Box 50 007, 104 05 Stockholm, Sweden of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State...postvolcanic pelitic rocks. Introduction The Lovisa mine exploits one of the most important styles of base
Catalog/List
black-brown cleavage Yakutia. Russin 5mmÂŁ2 Rawhide Mine, MohavcCounty, ÂœxY,ÂŁ3 Arizona , US.A . l.x2 50p...group AlS0/4 Al S0/4 ✓ New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon .England Madagascar Railway cutting nearCreston...in Porphyl)·. Pure grey metallic mass San Jose Mine. Oruro, Bolivia 6x6mm ÂŁ3 23 ANHYDRITE Rich white...massive. xrayed material. Sjogruvan Gryth)1tan. Sweden 7 CcSrC0/3 CcSr C0/3 AISiO Feldspar Pb AgSb...Scotland mixture wilhChrysotile, pale grey-green ✓ County Bridge Quarry.Lizard C . ornwall massive. Stitchtitc
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals from the skarn deposits VĂ€ster Silvberg (Sweden) and Tumurtijn-ovoo (Mongolia): Indications of...ganiferous iron-ore deposits, i.e. VĂ€ster Silvberg in Sweden (VS) and Tumurtijn-ovoo in Mongolia (TO). At VS...sulfide-bearing skarn iron ores of VĂ€ster Silvberg in central Sweden. The host-rock minerals appeared, however, to be...Ludvika in the Bergslagen ore region in central Sweden. Most of these mines were small and operated since...fine-grained, we sampled similar material from the mine tailings of VĂ€ster Silvberg for an adequate comparison
 
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