Krångfors

DESCRIPTION

The krångfors field is an area containing a couple of arsenic pyrite veins with a gold contents up to 300g/ton. It was discovered in the 1860:s, forgotten and rediscovered about 1900 by Petrus Burman.

Litterature

SGU Ca17:117
To do : Beskrivning av Petrus Burman.

Mineral assemblage

Pyrite,arsenopyrite, chalkopyrite, chlorite, cobaltite, galena, gold, sphalerite, calcite, quartz.

Pyrite
Pyrite together with some black sulphide. It could be a weathering product, since I didn't have more tools than a hammer when I collected it. It was in the center of a quartz rock about 30 cm big.
Collected in the summer of 1996.
(300 dpi, 800x600, 46k)

Pyrite
Another sample of the sulphide in the quartz rock. You can see the vein of pyrite in the right side of the picture.
Collected in the summer of 1996.
(300 dpi, 800x600, 96k)

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Last changed : 1998-04-15

axelsson@acc.umu.se

	Pyrite Pyrite together with some black sulphide. It could be a weathering product, since I didn't have more tools than a hammer when I collected it. It was in the center of a quartz rock about 30 cm big. Collected in the summer of 1996. (300 dpi, 800x600, 46k)
	Pyrite Another sample of the sulphide in the quartz rock. You can see the vein of pyrite in the right side of the picture. Collected in the summer of 1996. (300 dpi, 800x600, 96k)