Minerals are found in nepheline-syenite-pegmatites, and this entry covers several small pegmatites among them the typelocality of eudidymite.
Note: Lille Arøy island has also been called 'Midtre Arøy' and 'Øvre Arøy'. Brøgger (1890) usually used 'Ober-Arö', but he also used 'Mittel-Arö'.
See also Vesle Arøya locality.
References:
- Brøgger, W.C. (1887). Om ”Eudidymit”, et nyt norsk mineral. Forelöbig meddelelse. Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne 31, 196-199
- Brøgger, W.C. (1888): Vorläufige Mittheilung über den "Hiortdahlit", ein neues Mineral von Arö, Norwegen. Nyt Magazin for Naturvetenskaberne, 31, 323-239
- Brøgger, W.C. (1890): Die Mineralien der Syenitpegmatitgänge der südnorwegischen Augit-und Nephelinsyenite. Zeitschrift für Kristallographie und Mineralogie 16. 663 pp + 28 plates
- Sverdrup, T. L.,Bryn, K. Ø. & Sæbø, P.Chr.(1959): Contributions to the mineralogy of Norway. No. 2. Bastnäsite, a new mineral for Norway. Geologisk Tidsskrift 39, 237-247
- Larsen, A.O. (2001): Chemical composition of catapleiites from the syenite pegmatites in the Larvik plutonic complex, Norway. Bergverksmuseets Skrift 18, 5-9 [with an analysis of catapleiite from Lille Arøya]
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Map Reference: 59°0'42"N , 9°47'17"E
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