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Skudesundskjær (Skutesundskjær), Barkevik, Langesundsfjorden, Larvik, Vestfold, Norway

The Skudesundskjær locality consist of 2 small skerries about 30 x 20m and 40 x 20m large. It is the typelocality of rosenbuschite. Since 1973, collecting is strictly forbidden, the skerries is protected as site of geological interest.

Refs.:
- Brøgger, W.C. (1887): Foreløpig meddelelse om Mineralerne paa de sydnorske augit-og nefelinsyeniters grovkornige gange. Geologiska Föreningen i Stockholm Förhandlingar 9, 247-274

- Brøgger, W.C. (1890): Die Mineralien der Syenitpegmatitgänge der südnorwegischen Augit-und Nephelinsyenite. Zeitschrift für Kristallographie und Mineral.16. 663 pp

- Neumann, H. (1962): Contributions to the mineralogy of Norway. No 13. Rosenbuschite and its relation to Götzenite. Norsk Geologisk Tidskrift 42, 179-186

- Andersen, F.,Berge, S.A. & Burvald, I. (1996): Die Mineralien des Langesundsfjords und des umgebenden Larvikit-Gebietes, Oslo-Region, Norwegen. MineralienWelt 7(4):21-100





Mineral List:
  • Aegirine
  • Annite
  • Astrophyllite
  • Cancrinite
  • Catapleiite
  • Eudialyte
    var: Eucolite
  • Ferro-edenite
  • Fluorite
  • Gibbsite
  • Leucophanite
  • Löllingite
  • Microcline
  • Molybdenite
  • Mosandrite
  • Natrolite
    var: Spreustein
  • Nepheline
  • Pyrochlore
  • Pyrophanite
  • Rosenbuschite (TL)
  • Sodalite
  • Tadzhikite-(Ce)
  • Thorite
  • Tritomite-(Ce)
  • Wöhlerite
  • Zircon


    25 entries listed. 23 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

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