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Huken Quarry, Grorud, Oslo, Norway

Cuprite
Huken Quarry, Grorud, Oslo, Norway

Photo: Knut Eldjarn
Huken pukkverk, Grorud bydel, Oslo, Norge

This quarry is still in operation, and has cut through some old Cu-mines (Alnsjø mining field; Aanerud Mine and Nedre Grorud Mine). The dominant rock is basalt which is cut by several different veins of rocks like "Grorudite" (peralkaline microgranite), quartz-porphyry, diabase, syenite, andesite and a vein of anatase and albite.

Mineral List

Actinolite
Aegirine
Albite
var: Andesine
Almandine
Anatase
Andradite
Anorthoclase
'Apatite'
'Apophyllite'
Augite
Azurite
'Biotite'
Bornite
Calcite
'Chabazite'
Chalcocite
Chalcopyrite
Chrysocolla
Clinochlore
Covellite
Cuprite
Digenite
Epidote
Ferro-katophorite
Fluorite
Galena
Goethite
Grossular
Halite
Hematite
Heulandite-Ca
'Hornblende'
Kaersutite
'K Feldspar
var: Adularia'

Laumontite
Låvenite
Lepidocrocite
Magnetite
Malachite
Microcline
Mogánite
Montmorillonite
Muscovite
Nukundamite
Opal
Orthoclase
Palygorskite
Prehnite
Pyrite
Pyrrhotite
Quartz
Scheelite
Scolecite
Sphalerite
'Stilbite'
Tremolite
Wöhlerite ?
Zircon


59 entries listed. 51 valid minerals.

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References

- Kjerulf, T. (1865): Veiviser ved geologiske Excursioner i Christiania Omegn. Universitetsprogram for andet Halvaar 1865, 1-43
- Vogt, J.H.L. (1884): Norske ertsforekomster I. Archiv for Mathematik og Naturvidenskab. 9, 231-300 [p.
- Vogt, J.H.L. (1892): Om dannelse af jernmalmforekomster. Norges geologiske undersøkelse. 6, 70.[find of azurite]
- Brøgger, W.C. (1894) Die Eruptivgesteine des Kristianiagebietes. 1. Die Gesteine der Grorudit -Tinguait-Serie. (Videnskabsselskabets Skrifter I. Mat.-Naturv. Kl. 1894, no. 4).
- Segalstad, T.V. (1984) An unusual titanium-rich oxide mineral from Oslo, Norway, American Mineralogist. 69, 388-390.
- Berg, H.-J. (1990): Etter Neumann. Scheelitt. CaWo4. Montmorillonitt (Na,Ca)0,3(Al,Mg)2Si4O10(OH)2 * nH2O. STEIN 17(3), 40.
- Kvamsdal, L.O. (1991): Nye mineraler fra Huken, Grorud, Oslo. Mi-Fo.78, 2.
- Kvamsdal, L. O. (1999): Mineralene fra Huken pukkverk i Oslo. STEIN 26 (4), 14-47.
- Nordrum, F. S., Larsen, A.O. & Erambert, M. (2005): Minerals of the heulandite series in Norway- additional data and summary. Norsk Bergverksmuseum Skrift, 30: 98-112 [with analysis of heulandite-Ca from Huken]

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