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The Laisvall Lead-Zinc Deposit — Sweden

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This is one of the world’s major lead deposits and certainly Europe’s largest, and it is interesting in that it has the paragenesis of the well-known Mississippi Valley Type deposits and yet strong environmental similarities with the Colorado Plateau and Central African deposits that respectively contain uranium and copper. It is one of a series of deposits that occur in sediments lying on the stabilized shield rocks of Sweden, along the edge of the great Caledonian orogenic belt.

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  • Liljeqvist, R. (1973), Caledonian Geology of the Laisvall Area, Southern Norrbotten, Swedish Lappland. Sveriges Geol. Undrsokn., ser. C 691, 43pp. [A good general description of the local geology with a good map.]

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  • Grip, E. (1954), Blymalmen vid Laisvall, dess Geologi och en Jamforelse med nagre utlandska Forekonster. Geol. Foren. Forhandl. 76, 357–380. [The most comprehensive description but lacks the results of later researches. For those who do not wish to grapple with Swedish, a shorter paper in English was published as.

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  • Grip, E. (1960), The Lead Deposits of the Eastern Border of the Caledonides in Sweden. Int. Geol. Cong. 21st ser. Norden. Rep. 16, pp. 149–159.]

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  • Rickard, P. T., Marinder, N.-E., Willden, M. Y. (1977)3 Spatial relations at the-Laisvall Deposit, Sweden. Econ. Geol. In press. [Contains a’good factual summary but is mainly a genetic essay that takes into account a wide range of research.]

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    Colin J. Dixon (Senior Lecturer in Mining Geology)

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Dixon, C.J. (1979). The Laisvall Lead-Zinc Deposit — Sweden. In: Atlas of Economic Mineral Deposits. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6511-2_19

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