The silver mines in Kongsberg were in operation from 1623 until 1958. At most more than 4000 people worked in the mining industry in Kongsberg (1770). German mining engineers were used from the start and for more than two centuries, and are the cause for all the German names on mines and streets in Kongsberg.
A total of more than 1,3 million kg silver were taken out of the mountain west and northwest of the town Kongsberg.
The Kongsberg silver mines are now protected as historical sites, collecting inside the mines and outside on the dumps is illegal.
NOTE: Most of the Kongsberg silver mining district is located within the Kongsberg municipality, but some mines f.ex the Vinoren silver mines is located outside in the Flesberg municipality. See therefore also the entry Flesberg municipality
References
- Readwin, T. A. (1877): V. —Notes on Some Norwegian Minerals. Mineralogical Magazine 1:229-233 [on silver and argentite]
- Morton, C. (1884): Några goniometriska bestämningar å kalkspat från Arendal, Kongsberg, Utö och Bamle. Meddelanden från Stockholms Högskola nr 34. Översigt af K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Förhandlingar 1884 No.8, 16 pp + plate. [includes goniometric measures of a calcite from Kongsberg]
-Bugge C. (1917): Kongsbergfeltets geologi. Norges Geologiske Undersøkelse 82, 272pp
- Lietz, J. (1939): Mikroskopische und chemische Untersuchungen an Kongsberger Silbererzen. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mineralogie. 2: 65-113
- Neumann, H. (1944): Silver deposits at Kongsberg. Norges Geologiske Undersøkelse 162. 133p + pl.I-VIII
- Bugge, A. (1967): Kongsberg Sølvverk. Norges Geologiske Undersøkelse 250C, 65-84
- Van der Wel, D. (1972): Contribution to the Mineralogy of Norway No. 51. Asbestos minerals from Kongsberg silver deposit. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 52: 287-294.
- Nordrum, F. S.(1979): Kongsberg Sølvverk. NAGS-nytt 6 (3), 4-15.
- Johnsen, O. (1986). Famous mineral localities: The Kongsberg silver Mines Norway. Mineralogical Record, 17(1), 19-35
- Johnsen, O. (1987): Sølv fra Kongsberg. Om bergverkshistorie og mineralrikdom. Bode verlag. 48p.
- Heltzen, A. M. (1987): Sammenhengen mellom amfibolittene og sølvets opptreden på Kongsberg. NAGS-nytt 14 (1), 16-23
- Nordrum, F. S. (1995): Mineralfunn på Kongsberg etter nedleggelsen av Sølvverket. Norsk Bergverksmuseum skrift nr 9, 42-47.
- Nordrum, F. S. ; Larsen, A. O. & Erambert, M. (2003): Ba,Sr-mineraler i Kongsberg sølvforekomster- en foreløpig rapport. Norsk Bergverksmuseum skrift 25: 43-50
- Berg, B. I. and Nordrum, F. S. (2003): Omsetning av sølvstuffer ved Kongsberg Sølvverk på 1600- og 1700 tallet. Norsk Bergverksmuseum skrift 25: 69-81
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