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Steli Feldspar Quarry, Tveit, Iveland, Aust-Agder, Norway

Tveit 3; Steeli

A rare-element REE monazite type granite pegmatite hosted in amphibolitic rocks quarried for feldspar located about 100m south of the road Tveit-Dalane on the Tveit Farm land. The pegmatite dikes was about 10 m wide.
Known especially for its good specimens of columbite-(Fe), muscovite and almandine.
Bjørlykke locality no. 3.

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The Steli quarry, Iveland Norway by Olav Revheim


Mineral List

'Albite-Anorthite Series'
'Allanite'
Almandine
Bertrandite
Beryl
'Biotite'
Bismuthinite
'Chlorite Group'
'Columbite'
Columbite-(Fe)
Euxenite-(Y)
Magnetite
Microcline
Molybdenite
Monazite-(Ce)
Muscovite
Pyrite
Quartz
Rutile
var: Ilmenorutile
Samarskite-(Y)
Xenotime-(Y)
Zircon
var: Alvite


24 entries listed. 17 valid minerals.

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References

Vogt, Th. (1911): Bertrandite von Iveland im südlichen Norwegen. Zeitschr. f. Krist. 50:6-13

Bjørlykke, H. (1935): The Mineral Paragenesis and Classification of the Granite Pegmatites of Iveland, Setesdal, Southern Norway. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 14, 211-311

Larsen, A.O.(1980): Granater fra granittpegmatitter. NAGS-nytt 7(4),31-32 [analysis on garnets in the almandine-spessartite series from Iveland including Steli]

Nordrum, F. S. (2004): Nyfunn av mineraler i Norge 2003-2004. STEIN 31 (2), 36-44

Nordrum, F. S. (2007): Nyfunn av mineraler i Norge 2006-2007. STEIN 34 (2), 14-26

Müller, A., Kearsley, A., Spratt, J. and Seltmann, R. (2012): Petrogenetic implications of magmatic garnet in granitic pegmatites from Southern Norway. Canadian Mineralogist. 50,1095-1115


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