Not really the 10th Tvedalen blog report, but it’s the 10th time Tvedalen trips have been blogged. I think…

Was out in the wonderful weather today, eating dust. Have been wonderful weather here for a week now, since last blog. But the nice weather makes the quarries pretty dusty…

Well, I didn’t go alone this time either. I was so lucky to have three other comrades along with me; Thor, Trond and Knut Edvard.

The great company didn’t bring any luck to the collecting. First we went to Østskogen quarry, there where some holes high up in the wall, but not accessible, and some good britholite-(Ce) samples to be found.

After Østskogen, we checked the neighbour quarry, Norwegian Pearl (dang, have forgotten to add this quarry to Mindat). There was only shadow to be found in the baking sun.

Last quarry to check was Sagåsen. We didn’t find much but the activity is getting close to the really interesting parts now. They are not there yet, but some pegmatite material had been exposed, also some loose pegmatite bits with interesting minerals. During our visit we found låvenite, ferrokentbrooksite, probably zirsilite-(Ce), mosandrite and a couple of other less rare minerals.

The samples probably came from the most interesting pegmatite in Sagåsen quarry. A pegmatite around 2 meters thick and covering the quarry as a horizontal vein, slightly dipping towards south-west (got to check that at next visit, since I never used a compass in the quarry…). Close to 70 mineral species have been found in this pegmatite vein.

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