Several pegmatites quarried for feldspar near the Rossås Farm. Especially the pegmatites N and NW of the farm was known for many of the rarer pegmatite minerals. In the early 1930s there were at last 4 different pegmatites worked as feldspar quarries all belonging to the land of the Rossås Farm.
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References
- Bjørlykke, H. (1934): The Mineral Paragenesis and Classification of the Granite Pegmatites of Iveland, Setesdal, Southern Norway. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 14, 211-311
- Wilke, H.-J. (1976): Mineral-Fundstellen Band 4: Skandinavien. Chr. Weise Verlag, München, p 34
Miyawaki, Ritsuro, Kuriyama, Junko, and Naki, Izumi, 1993, The redefinition of tengerite- (Y) , Y2(CO3)3.2-3H2O, and its crystal structure, American Mineralogist, 78: 425-432.
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