Kesebol mine
Strandhem ore field, Åmål, Västra Götaland County, Sweden
A former Mn-Fe-Cu mine in west Sweden, north of Goteborg.
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The mine produced some rare mineral specimens, including one for which it is the type locality – Kesebolite-(Ce). Other uncommon minerals include Ferriakasakaite-Ce, Flinkite, Gasparite-Ce, Neotocite, Ramsdellite, and Retzian-Ce.
The area was worked primarily for manganese during the World War periods during which Sweden had trade barriers and isolation preventing it from importing much Manganese.
Kesebol Mine was the most successful of these mines. An extremely detailed writeup of the site can be found in the article “The Manganese, Iron and Copper Mineralization at Kesebol in Dalsland, southwestern Sweden” by Per Geijer (linked below at Paleo Archive).
Further reading
- https://www.mindat.org/loc-10602.html
- https://paleoarchive.com/literature/Geijer1961-ManganeseIronCopperMineralizationKesebol.pdf
If you are interested in other classic Swedish locales we may have stock from the following locales.
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- Kesebol mine, Strandhem ore field, Åmål, Västra Götaland County, Sweden
- Norra Kärr, Gränna, Jönköping, Jönköping County, Sweden
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