Västanå is a village situated in Bromölla Municipality

Bromölla Municipality

Bromölla Municipality is a municipality in Skåne County in southern Sweden. Its seat is located in the town Bromölla.Bromölla was in 1967 reunited with Ivetofta...

, Skåne County

Skåne County

Skåne County is the southernmost administrative county or län, of Sweden, basically corresponding to the historical province Scania. It borders the counties of Halland, Kronoberg and Blekinge. The seat of residence for the Skåne Governor is the town of Malmö...

, Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 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

Christian Wilhelm Blomstrand

Christian Wilhelm Blomstrand was a Swedish mineralogist and chemist.Blomstrand was born in Växjö, Sweden and studied chemistry at the University of Lund, where he received his Ph.D in 1850 and his habilitation in 1854. After a expedition to Spitsbergen and a being a lecturer at the Elementary...

 discovered berlinite

Berlinite

Berlinite is a rare phosphate mineral. It has the same crystal structure as quartz with a low temperature polytype isostructural with α–quartz and a high temperature polytype isostructural with β–quartz...

 trolleite augelite

Augelite

Augelite is an aluminium phosphate mineral with formula: Al23. The shade varies from colorless to white, yellow or rose. Its crystal system is monoclinic....

 attacolite, kirrolite and westanite in 1868 in the iron mine.

Further reading

• Västanå iron mine
• Västanå Iron Mine
• Blomstrand C W (1868) Om Westanå mineralier, Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, 25, 197-212