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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.]
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.
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.]
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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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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