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Litland Grube Mine

Past Producer in Norway with commodities Nickel, Copper, Palladium, Cobalt, Platinum, Gold, Silver
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10038233
MRDS ID M045539
Record type Site
Current site name Litland Grube Mine
Alternate or previous names Hosanger Nikkel Gruber

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: 5.4957, 60.57833 (WGS84)
Relative position 20 KM NE OF BERGEN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Norway(country)

Europe(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country
Norway

Comments on the location information

  • IN LINCOLN NATIONAL FOREST. WITHIN JICARILLA MOUNTAINS. LOCATION GIVEN IS FOR PROSPECT SYMBOL SHOWN AT HEAD OF ALLUVIAL FAN IN ANCHO GULCH ON TOPO MAP

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Nickel Critical Primary
Copper Primary
Palladium Critical Secondary
Cobalt Critical Secondary
Platinum Critical Secondary
Gold Secondary
Silver Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • UNVERIFIED REPORT OF PT
  • NI CONTENT INVERSELY PROPORTIONAL TO CU CONTENT

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Pentlandite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Pyrrhotite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Gabbro

Nearby scientific data

(1) 5.4957, 60.57833
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form FLATTENED CIGAR
    Strike E-W
    Dip 30S
    Plunge 5 W
    Thickness 20M
    Length 360M
    Width 35M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Near Contact Of Gabbro And Gneiss

Comments on the geologic information

  • SOURCE ROCKS FOR THE PLACERS ARE MONZONITE PORPHYRY THAT CONTAINS MINOR GOLD-PYRITE VEINS. PALEOZOIC LIMESTONE IS ALSO PRESENT IN THE REGION.
  • MAJOR.UNITS: NORITIC MASS IN GRANITIC GNEISSES ; GEOL.DESC: METAGABBRO CONTAINS 20% LABRADORITE, 60% HYPERSTHENE, 12% HORNBLENDE, 5% BIOTITE, SCAPOLITE, ANALYSIS OF NORITE-METAGABBRO GIVEN BY BJORLYKKE, ORE MASSIVE TO DISSEMINATED-ORE COMPOSITION VARIES

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1875
Production years 1875-1949, MOST POST 1933

Mining district

District name Vestland District

Comments on the production information

  • ACCURATE PRODUCTION PROBABLY DOES NOT INCLUDE SMALL AMOUNTS OF GOLD SOLD TO LOCAL MERCHANTS AT JICARILLA, ANCHO, AND CARRIZOZO DURING THE 1930'S. ESTIMATED PRODUCTION VALUE UP TO 1931 IS BASED ON GOLD VALUED AT $20/OZ.
  • 1 & 7 = PROD. 1875-1949 FROM BJORLYKKE; 2-6 CALCULATED FROM FOSLIE

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • FANGLOMERATE WITH AN AREA OF 420 ACRES AND THICKNESS OF 7-10 FT HAS AN ESTIMATED VOLUME OF 5.4 MILLION CUBIC YARDS AND GRADE OF 0.043 OZ/YD, THUS CONTAINING ABOUT 8 SHORT TONS OF GOLD

Comments on the workings information

  • NUMEROUS SURFACE WORKINGS ARE SCATTERED THROUGHOUT DISTRICT AND MANY SMALL SHAFTS AND ADITS WERE DUG AT HEAD OF ANCHO GULCH. A LARGE DREDGE OPERATED WEST OF POST OFFICE AT JICARILLA IN 1903.

Comments on development

  • MAY HAVE BEEN MINED BY SPANIARDS IN THE 1700'S. WORKED BY MEXICANS IN THE MID 1800'S. ALL MINING HAS BEEN ON A SMALL SCALE BY INDIVIDUALS. EXPLORATION AND TESTING FROM 1965-1967 BY DR. G.U. GREEN CONSISTED OF 40 PITS, 20 DRILL HOLES, AND 100 TPD PILOT MILL, WHICH OPERATED FOR ABOUT 5 MONTHS IN 1966 AND WAS SUBSEQUENTLY DISMANTLED. NO GOLD WAS SOLD

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    FOSLIE AND HOST, 1932, NORGES GEOL. UNDERS., NO. 137

  • Deposit

    BJORLYKKE, 1949, NORGES GEOL. UNDERS., NO. 172

  • Production

    FOSLIE AND HORST, 1932, BJORLYKKE, 1949

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit JOHNSON (1972) SUMMARIZES AREA INFORMATION AND LITERATURE ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Deposit RECORD D010748 HAS BEEN MERGED AND DELETED.
Deposit SEE MINE MAPS AND CROSS-SECTIONS OF BJORLYKKE, 1949.
Deposit GOLD OCCURS IN GRAVEL, SAND, AND SILT IN ANCHO, RICO, LITTLE NUGGET, AND OTHER GULCHES ON EAST AND SOUTHEAST FLANKS OF THE MAIN JUCARILLA MOUNTAINS. GOLD IS GENERALLY FINE GRAINED AND DIFFICULT TO EXTRACT. IT IS NOT PARTICULARLY CONCNETRATED IN CHANNELS OR ON BEDROCK AND IS KNOWN FOR ITS ERRATIC VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION. TOTAL AREA OF KNOWN OR PROBABLE PLACER DEPOSITS IS 5-6 SQUARE MI.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1975 Page, Norman J. U.S. Geological Survey

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