gsminmag Mineralogical Magazine Mineralogical Magazine 0026-461X Mineralogical Society 10.1180/minmag.1986.050.355.13 Mineralogy Conditions of Formation of the Iron-Containing Minerals, Hällefors Silver Mines, Bergslagen, Sweden Jasiński A. W. * Institute of Earth Sciences, Free University, De Boelelaan 1085, 1007 MC Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Present address: Technical University of Wrocław, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry and Metallurgy of Rare Elements, 50-370 Wrocław, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, Poland.

 3 1986 50 355 101 110 15 11 1984 28 5 1985 Copyright © 1986, The Mineralogical Society 1986 Abstract

The Hällefors silver deposit is regarded as a volcanogenic-exhalative iron ore deposit with dispersed amounts of Ag-Pb-Zn (±Cu) which has undergone secondary remobilization leading to the concentration of sulphides and sulphosalts. Based on data from the iron oxides and sulphides, the sulphide-sulphosalt mineralization is believed to have been formed in two stages. The first is characterized by the ranges 573-473 K and 2.25–1.5 kbar, higher gradient of changes of log aS2 with temperature and mostly sulphide precipitation; the second by the ranges 473–443 K, lower gradient of changes of log aS2 and mainly sulphosalt deposition. Assuming the precipitation was from fluids and aqueous solutions, possible conditions of formation of some of the iron minerals have been determined.

 Keywords iron oxides iron sulphides Hällefors mine Bergslagen Sweden