CLASSIC   MINERAL   LOCALITIES

Locality                                              Number of                   Type
                                                        Mineral Species           Minerals

* Långban, Sweden                                  260                              67

* Franklin, New Jersey                             340                              69

% Crestmore Quarry                                  51                                9

     Riverside, California   

# Butte, Montana                                     130                                1                                                                       

! Mont Saint-Hilare                                  346                              41

   Montreal, Canada

! Ilímaussaq, Greenland                            194                              23

# Tsumeb, Namibia                                  242                              52

# Broken Hill, NSW Australia                  280                              10

*Iron Monarch, SA Australia                   140                                3

! Lovozero Massif, Russia                        250                              73

! Khibiny Massif, Russia                           218                              61

# Dal'negorsk, Russia                               160                                4

% Lengenbach, Binntal Switzerland            98                              25

# Freiberg, Germany                                124                                -  

# Kongsberg, Norway                             108                                1

Deposit types

* Metamorphosed manganese or iron deposit

! Alkaline intrusives

# Metallic mineral deposits

% Marble

REFERENCES

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Birch, W.  (ed)(1999) Minerals of Broken Hill. Broken Hill City Council. 2nd ed. 289p.

Gebhard, G. (1999) Tsumeb. GG Publishing Waldbröl, Germany 328p.

Grant, R. and W.E. Wilson (2001) Famous mineral localities: Dal'negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia. Mineralogical Record 32:3-30.

Holtstam, D. and J. Langhof (ed) (1999) Långban, the mines, their minerals, geology and explorers. Swedish Museum of Natural History 215p.

Jenkins, R. E. and J. A. Lorengo (2002) Butte, Montana : Minerals, Mines, and History. Mineralogical Record 33:4-69.

Mandarino, J. A. and V. Anderson (1989) Monteregian Teasures: The minerals of Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec Cambridge University Press 281p.

Moroshkin, V. V. and N. I. Frishman (2001) Dalnegorsk Mineralogical Almanac Vol 4.

Pekov, I. V. (2000) Lovozero Massif. Moscow, Ocean Pictures Ltd. 480p.

Petersen, O. V. and K. Secher (1993) The minerals of Greenland Mineralogical Record 24:1-67.

Pring, A., U. Kolitsch, and G. Francis (2000) Additions to the mineralogy of the Iron Monarch Deposit, Middleback Ranges, South Australia Australian Journal of Mineralogy 6:9-23.

Warner, H. , and R. Mitchell (ed)(1982) Minerals of Broken Hill. Australian Mining & Smelting Ltd. Melbourne 259p.

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