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Occurence 1111 - 012 Årstad gruve
(Object Id: 4908)
(Last updated: 12.12.2005)

Location
County: Rogaland Municipality: Sokndal (1111)
Map 1:50000: Sokndal (1311-4) Map 1:250000: Mandal
Coordinate system: EU89-UTM Zone 32
East: 342699 m. North: 6469050 m.
Longitude: 6.3133140 Latitude: 58.3341240
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Resource
Resource Type: Ferrous metals(Fe, Mn, Ti) Resource Subtype: Iron-Titanium
Element(s): Fe Ti P
Importance
Raw material meaning: Little Importance (reg. 18.02.2015)


Mineralization
Era: Proterozoic Period: Neoproterozoic
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: Mt +/- Ilm +/- Ap in mafic intrusion %TiO(Ore):
Titanium province: Rogaland anorthosite province %P2O5(Ore):
Host rock: %MgO(Ilm):
Main Ti mineral: Ilmenite %V2O3(Mt):
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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Massive oxides in otherwise rather felsic cumulates in the basal part of the Sokndal lobe. The deposit was worked prior to 1917 and contains both ilmenite and magnetite.


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