Use of mercury as a pathfinder for buried base-metal deposits in the Parkejaure area, Swedish Lapland

• Main Authors: Dugerdil, Yves, Ek, J., Jaffe, Felice
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: The Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (London) 1975
• Subjects: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/550; Arctic; Coleman; Jokkmokk; Lapland; Norrbotten
• Online Access: https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:156875

The Parkejaure area is situated just above the Arctic circle, 35 km northwest of the town of Jokkmokk, Norrbotten County. It is entirely covered by glacial till, which can reach a thickness of 5 m. Geochemical investigations outlined three distinct copper anomalies - the eastern, central and western...