Finally got myself down to Sagåsen and Tvedalen today, been a while since last time now… The weather was nice, but cold, was about -6C when I left home. Got a little “warmer” during the day, but… Anyway it was an incredible day to be out. Literally everything was coated with ice crystals, sparkling and shining like zillions of stars. The giant bling day…



Well, after going nuts with the camera, I finally ended up in Sagåsen quarry, and could start to look for minerals that don’t disappear when brought home. It wasn’t easy to see anything, ‘cause of the ice crystal covering everything.



But there was plenty of pegmatite material to look through, but not so many exciting minerals to mention. I did bring back some galena, sphalerite, molybdenite samples to check it for secondary minerals, and then it was some cancrinite... That was all. Unfortunately I forgot my hammer in the quarry, discovered this when I was back at the car, then it was just to walk back, using limited daylight…



After getting Mjöllnir, and shooting a dozen more photos, I continued to the Saga Pearl and Almenningen quarries. Didn’t find anything there at all, but ice crystals…
They are still not doing any work in Almanningen quarry. It has been closed for more than a year now.

I walked from Almenningen to Haugane quarry, one of the quarries where nothing ever has been found. Until today…. I found a block with some pegmatite, and cavities! Natrolite crystals to a couple of cm, nothing to scream about, but the fluorapophyllite growing in between them was nice. I got out a nice miniature without a broken crystal, which is going straight into my collection. Now I’m waiting for the other things to dry up so I can have a proper look at them too. In the same block I saw some meliphanite, and everywhere beryllium is present, it’s interesting things to be found. So finally all the walking paid of…

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