Västanå is a village situated in
Bromölla Municipality,
Skåne County,
Sweden with 130 inhabitants in 2005.
Västanå iron mine
In 1800 an iron ore deposit was discovered and mining began in 1804. Till the closure in 1917, 1500 tonnes of iron ore were mined. Several new minerals were discovered in that mine. For example
Christian Wilhelm Blomstrand discovered
berlinite
Berlinite ( aluminium phosphate, chemical formula AlPO4 or Al(PO4)) is a rare high-temperature hydrothermal or metasomatic phosphate mineral. It has the same crystal structure as quartz with a low temperature polytype isostructural with α–quar ...
trolleite augelite
Augelite is an aluminium phosphate mineral with formula: Al2( P O4)(O H)3. The shade varies from colorless to white, yellow or rose. Its crystal system is monoclinic.Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Ab ...
attacolite, and
westanite in 1868 in the iron mine.
Further reading
Västanå iron mine
* Blomstrand C W (1868) Om Westanå mineralier, Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, 25, 197-212
References
Populated places in Skåne County
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