Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Gruvåsen Mines, Persberg Ore District, Filipstad, Värmland County, Sweden

Oldest recorded age at locality: 1890
Youngest recorded age at locality: 1715

mindat Locality ID: 10598
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-10598.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Gruvåsen Mines, Persberg Ore District, Filipstad, Värmland County, Sweden": 6
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 6

Number of Child Localities: 6
Child Localities:
Bornshyttan
Dressfalls Mines
Finnfalls Mine
Kung Karla Mine
Lång Mines
Torskebäcks Mine

Latitude: 59°44'54"N
Longitude: 14°22'20"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 59.748333333333,14.372222222222

A	This mineral is Anthropogenic.
G	This mineral is directly dated.
B	This mineral is reported as having this age.
Y	This mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
O	This mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
R	The age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
P	The age displayed for this mineral is the range of ages for this mineral at all of this locality's children.
	This mineral's age has not yet been recorded.

Acanthite	Allargentum	Amphibole	Arsenic	Arsenopyrite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Chlorite	Clay	Clinozoisite
Cobaltite	Copper	Corundum	Covellite	Cubanite	Diaspore	Epidote	Feldspar	Garnet	Humite
Löllingite	Madocite	Marcasite	Mica	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Olivine	Pyrite	Pyroxene
Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Scheelite	Sphalerite	Spinel	Stannite	Stibnite	Tetrahedrite	Titanite
Wurtzite

This Mineral list contains entries from this locality, including sub-localities. Minerals in bold are reported by mindat.org as occurring directly at this locality, and do not occur at any children (sublocalities) of this locality.

Elements at this locality, including sub-localities: Ag Al As Bi C Ca Cl Co Cu F Fe H K Mg Mo Ni O Pb S Sb Si Sn Te Ti W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag Al As C Ca Cu F Fe H K Mg O S Sb Si Ti

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Allargentum Amphibole Arsenic Arsenopyrite Calcite Chalcopyrite Chlorite Clay Clinozoisite
Cobaltite Copper Corundum Covellite Cubanite Diaspore Epidote Feldspar Garnet Humite
Löllingite Madocite Marcasite Mica Molybdenite Nickeline None Olivine Pyrite Pyroxene
Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Scheelite Sphalerite Spinel Stannite Stibnite Tetrahedrite Titanite
Wurtzite

57 IMA Minerals at location:

Acanthite ()*	Actinolite ()*	Allargentum ()*	Andradite ()*	Anthophyllite ()*
Antimony ()*	Ardaite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Bismuth ()*	Bismuthinite ()*
Breithauptite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cassiterite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chondrodite ()*
Clinochlore ()*	Clinozoisite ()*	Cobaltite ()*	Costibite ()*	Covellite ()*
Cubanite ()*	Diopside ()*	Dolomite ()*	Epidote ()*	Forsterite ()*
Freibergite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Graphite ()*	Gudmundite ()*
Hedenbergite ()*	Hematite ()*	Hessite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Löllingite ()*
Mackinawite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Microcline ()*	Molybdenite ()*
Nisbite ()*	Paracostibite ()*	Phlogopite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Scheelite ()*	Silver ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Spinel ()*	Stannite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Titanite ()*
Tremolite ()*	Troilite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	1890	1850	2	112869,112870	2793
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1890	1850	1	112865	3419
Allargentum ()*	Allargentum	Ag_1-xSb_x (x ≈ 0.09-0.16)	1890	1715	1	112869	69
Andradite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Fe³⁺₂(SiO₄)₃	1860	1715	0		1534
Anthophyllite ()*	Amphibole	Mg₂Mg₅Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1890	1715	1	112865	718
Antimony ()*	Arsenic	Sb	1890	1715	2	112866,112869	363
Ardaite ()*	Madocite	Pb₁₇Sb₁₅S₃₅Cl₉	1890	1850	1	112866	2
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	1890	1850	4	112865,112866,112867,112870	9052
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	1890	1715	4	112867,112868,112869,112870	1966
Bismuthinite ()*	Stibnite	Bi₂S₃	1890	1850	1	112869	1935
Breithauptite ()*	Nickeline	NiSb	1890	1715	1	112870	175
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1860	1715	0		27770
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂	1890	1715	2	112869,112870	5171
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1890	1850	6	112865,112866,112867,112868,112869,112870	27198
Chondrodite ()*	Humite	Mg₅(SiO₄)₂F₂	1860	1715	0		285
Clinochlore ()*	Chlorite Clay	Mg₅Al(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₈	1860	1715	0		1756
Clinozoisite ()*	Clinozoisite Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1890	1715	1	112865	1025
Cobaltite ()*	Cobaltite	CoAsS	1890	1850	2	112867,112869	966
Costibite ()*	Löllingite	CoSbS	1890	1850	1	112869	19
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1890	1850	2	112869,112870	4165
Cubanite ()*	Cubanite Wurtzite	CuFe₂S₃	1890	1850	3	112867,112869,112870	802
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1890	1715	2	112865,112868	4135
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1860	1715	0		9895
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1860	1715	0		8173
Forsterite ()*	Olivine	Mg₂(SiO₄)	1860	1715	0		1188
Freibergite ()*	Tetrahedrite	Ag₆[Cu₄Fe₂]Sb₄S₁₂	1860	1715	0		663
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1723	1715	5	112866,112867,112868,112869,112870	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1890	1850	3	112866,112869,112870	7437
Graphite ()*	None	C	1890	1715	1	112866	2812
Gudmundite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeSbS	1890	1850	1	112870	170
Hedenbergite ()*	Pyroxene	CaFe²⁺Si₂O₆	1860	1715	0		741
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1890	1850	1	112870	14640
Hessite ()*	None	Ag₂Te	1890	1715	2	112867,112869	804
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1890	1850	2	112869,112870	5433
Löllingite ()*	Löllingite	FeAs₂	1860	1715	0		762
Mackinawite ()*	None	(Fe,Ni)_1+xS (x = 0-0.07)	1890	1850	2	112867,112869	451
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1890	1850	2	112866,112870	14899
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1890	1850	2	112869,112870	5674
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1860	1715	0		4924
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1890	1850	4	112867,112868,112869,112870	5800
Nisbite ()*	Löllingite	NiSb₂	1890	1715	1	112866	20
Paracostibite ()*	Löllingite	CoSbS	1890	1850	1	112869	6
Phlogopite ()*	Mica Clay	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂	1860	1715	0		2273
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	1890	1850	3	112866,112869,112870	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1890	1850	1	112870	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1890	1850	6	112865,112866,112867,112868,112869,112870	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1860	1715	0		61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1890	1715	1	112869	5614
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	1890	1715	1	112866	4894
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1890	1715	3	112866,112869,112870	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1890	1850	6	112865,112866,112867,112868,112869,112870	21482
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	1860	1715	0		1934
Stannite ()*	Stannite Sphalerite	Cu₂FeSnS₄	1890	1850	3	112866,112869,112870	668
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1890	1850	1	112870	5317
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1860	1715	0		4899
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1890	1850	1	112865	2562
Troilite ()*	None	FeS	1890	1850	2	112869,112870	1044

5 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Sample Source	Sample Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID
Kristen002401	1890	1850			Fe, Mn, S ore formation			Yes		Fe, Mn, S	220866	Persberg Ore District, Filipstad, Värmland County, Sweden	Bergslagen	Sundblad et al. (1993)	10.1016/0301-9268(93)90085-G	PR64_319
Kristen002124	1860	1860			age of sulphide mineralization and skarn deformation						10598	Gruvåsen Mines, Persberg Ore District, Filipstad, Värmland County, Sweden	Gruvåsen Sulphide Skarn	Hellingwerf and van Raaphorst (1988)	10.1007/BF01164699	MP38_161
MP38_161-00001	1860	1860	1860								10598	Gruvåsen Mines, Persberg Ore District, Filipstad, Värmland County, Sweden	Gruvåsen	Hellingwerf and van Raaphorst (1988)	10.1007/BF01164699	MP38_161
PR51_265-00013	1715	1715	1715	Pb-Pb		galena	161		Galena		10598	Gruvåsen Mines, Persberg Ore District, Filipstad, Värmland County, Sweden	Gruvåsen	Sundblad (1991)	10.1016/0301-9268(91)90104-I	PR51_265
PR51_265-00014	1723	1723	1723	Pb-Pb		galena	165		Galena		10598	Gruvåsen Mines, Persberg Ore District, Filipstad, Värmland County, Sweden	Gruvåsen	Sundblad (1991)	10.1016/0301-9268(91)90104-I	PR51_265

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