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A. Geyti and H. K. Schoenwandt
Bordvika; a possible porphyry molybdenum occurrence within the Oslo Rift, Norway (in A special issue devoted to mineral deposits in Fennoscandia)
Economic Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists (August 1979), 74(5):1211-1220
Abstract:
An alteration pattern, in many ways resembling that known from the Climax porphyry-molybdenum deposits, has been found in the central part of the Glitrevann cauldron in a late, stock-shaped intrusion consisting of aplitic granite and quartz-feldspar-porphyry. Sericitic alteration is the most dominant exposed feature of the mineralization. Below the sericitic alteration occurs a stockwork of molybdenite mineralization, which is thought to be the uppermost part of a possible orebody.The Bordvika Mo mineralization is found in a subvolcanic environment in contradistinction to that of the nearby Drammen granite where molybdenite-bearing quartz veins are found in plutonic rocks. Both the Glitrevann and the Drammen granite Mo mineralization belong to a major biotite granite complex in the central part of the Oslo rift.A classification of the granite-hosted Mo mineralization within the Oslo rift is proposed. It seems as if the Oslo rift Mo mineralization can be classified according to its apical position in the granite.
Index Terms/Descriptors:
Bordvika; cauldrons; classification; economic geology; Europe; Fennoscandia; Glitrevann; hydrothermal alteration; hydrothermal processes; intrusions; metal ores; metasomatism; mineral deposits, genesis; molybdenite; molybdenum ores; Norway; ore deposits; Oslo region; porphyry molybdenum; possibilities; processes; rift zones; Scandinavia; stocks; stockwork deposits; sulfides; volcanic features; Western Europe
Latitude & Longitude:
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N60°10'00" and
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E10°40'00" (Search for maps and images at Alexandria Digital Library)
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