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Occurence 3116 - 001 Skår
(Object Id: 6631)
(Last updated: 28.05.2025)

Location
County: Østfold Municipality: Skiptvet (3116)
Map 1:50000: Sarpsborg (1913-1) Map 1:250000: Oslo
Coordinate system: EU89-UTM Zone 32
East: 623418 m. North: 6586942 m.
Longitude: 11.1738970 Latitude: 59.4029880
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Resource
Resource Type: Ferroalloys (Cr,Ni,Co,V,Mo,W) Resource Subtype: Nickel
Element(s): Ni Cu
Importance
Raw material meaning: Little Importance (reg. 18.02.2015)

Resources and production
Activity: Mining Reserves:
Operating method: Underground mining Historical production:


Products
Element/product Crude ore grade or quality Reg. date
Ni 2.0 % 18.02.2005

Mineralization
Era: Proterozoic Period: Mesoproterozoic
Genesis: Orthomagmatic formation Form:
Main texture: Min. distribution:
Main grain size: Main alteration:
Strike/Dip: Direction:
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Stratigraphic classification of host rock
Era: Proterozoic Period: Mesoproterozoic
Province: East Norwegian Basement Province
Geotec.unit: Østfold Complex
Tectonic complex:
Igneous complex:
Group: Formation:

Information(s) in free text format
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Rekstad (1921) skriver "Ved Skår, likeoverfor Furuholmen ved Glomma, har der været skjerpet på nikkelholdig magnetkis. Malmen består også her av magnetkis med noget kobberkis. Sidestenen til malmen er en finkornig gabbro. Her er forøvrig kun litet gabbro å se. Den forherskende bergart er gneis. Forekomsten ved Skår synes å være forholdsvis liten. Den blev drevet av Glørud interessentskap 1876-77. Primamalmen herfra er opgitt å skulle inneholdt 2% nikkel og sekundamalmen 0,8%."

Bibliography:
From NGU's Reference Archive:
Rekstad, J. , 1921
Eidsberg. De geologiske forhold innen rektangelkartet Eidsbergs område
;Norges geologiske undersøkelse;KARTBESKRIVELSE; BOK;NGU; No.88;76 pages
Abstract:
The territory is situated in south-eastern Norway to the east of the Oslofjord. It is an inland district which at no place reaches the sea. Glomma is the chief river which runs through the country in a southerly direction. The rocks occurring here are gneiss, granite, gabbro and schistose amphibolite, all of them of Archean age. Gneiss occupies a large area of the region. The rock has a varied appearance. Partly it is rich in mica (mica gneiss), partly it contains hornblende (hornblende-gneiss), partly it is coarse-grained and of granitoid texture. This latter form embraces also granite which has been deformed by powerful mechanical forces. This granite is intermixed with the gneiss in such a way as to make it impossible to separate them on the map. For the most part there is no distinctive demarcation between them, but the one passes into the other. The gneiss is mostly stratified, with well defined strike and dip. The granite intermixed is younger than the gneiss, but it belongs to the oldest known granites of Scandinavia. The gneiss is for the most part of igneous origin. Gabbro and amphibolite occur as numerous lenses injected into the gneiss. Connected with the gabbro here occurs nickelferous pyrrhotite. The greatest of these occurrences is at Romsås.

, 1940
Aktenvermerk uber Nickelerz-Vorkommen in Smålenene.
;Norges geologiske undersøkelse;FAGRAPPORT;Bergarkivet; No.BA 1585;2 pages
Abstract:
Notatet gir opplysninger om nikkel-magnetkisforekomster i Smålenene, Spydeberg, Hobøl, Skiptvedt, Svendal, Rakkestad, Eidsberg, Trøgstad og Askim.


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