Area with more than 200 small Pb and Zn mines and prospects following mostly hydrothermal quartz-veins, cutting gneisses. Pegmatites are also frequent in the gneisses. Mining started here as early as 1543. The mines was worked sporadically until 1908 when they were closed.
References
- Anonymously (1974): Blyverket i Bamble i Telemark. NAGS-nytt. 2 (3), 22
- Røsholt, B. (1967): The lead and zinc bearing veins at Tråk in southern Norway. Norges Geologiske Undersøkelse 250B, 33-64
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