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Deposit Area 1101 - 021
(Last updated 09.feb.2005)

Name of Deposit Area : Hestnes
(Object Id : 1101,021,00,00)

Location
County : Rogaland (11) Municipality : Eigersund (1101)
Map 1:50000: Egersund (1211-1) Map 1:250000: Mandal
Marking point: Longitude: 6.0040550 Latitude: 58.4247620
EU89-UTM Zone 32
X-coord: 325049 m. Y-coord: 6479900 m.

Commodity
Main Type: Ferrous metals(Fe, Mn, Ti) Sub Type: Iron-Titanium
Element(s): Fe Ti P

Importance
Public: Little Importance (reg. 18.02.2015)
Economical: Minor interest , (Confirmed 05.feb.2003 by Leif Furuhaug)

Mineralization
Era: Proterozoic Period: Neoproterozoic
Dating: Method:
Genesis: Orthomagmatic formation Form:
Main texture: Min. distribution:
Main grain size: Main alteration:
Strike/Dip: Direction:
Plunge:
Ti-deposit type(s)
Main type: Magmatic Ilm/Mt-ratio:
Sub type: Nelsonite %TiO(Ore): < 3
Titanium province: Rogaland anorthosite province %P2O5(Ore): > 3
Host rock: Anorthosite %MgO(Ilm): 1 - 3
Main Ti mineral: Ilmenite %V2O3(Mt): < 0.4
ppm U (Rutile):
Stratigraphic classification of host rock
Era: Proterozoic Period: Neoproterozoic
Province: South Norwegian Basement Province
Geotec.unit:
Tectonic complex:
Igneous complex:
Group: Formation:

Information(s) in free text format
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Fe-Ti oxide and apatite body in the Håland anorthosite, close to the contact between the Håland and Egersund-Ogna anorthosites and the "norito-granitic" zone (P. Michot, 1960) separating the two. The deposit is nelsonitic, consisting essentially of magnetite and apatite.


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