In the 1910s and 1920s he primarily studied the rich and varied mineral deposits in the Långban area, and described many previously unknown minerals, for example Synchysite-(Ce) and Cordylite.
Långbanshyttan is the name of an adjacent blast furnace and adjacent house of the factory manager, where the brothers Nils and John Ericsson were born.
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It is the birthplace of Swedish-American inventor John Ericsson
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In addition to its type locality, it is reported from Predazzo, Tyrol, Austria; Carlingford, County Louth, Ireland; Broadford, Skye and the island of Muck, Scotland; León, Spain; the Bellerberg volcano, Eifel district, Germany; Nordmark and Långban, Varmland, Sweden; and Kopeysk, southern Ural Mountains, Russia.