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Baryte, Norway
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Here will go a good picture of a Baryte from Norway and general remarks about the Baryte from this country. Here are some url's to some of the better Norwegian Baryte specimens here on Mindat that can be considered for inclusion in the article. These, in most cases are just for temporary use until we can get images of the much better specimens that are almost certainly out there. We should also consider that there are probably localities out there with fine specimens that are not even mentioned on Mindat. Also in some instances there are sometimes pictures on Mindat, of specimens from a locality, but they were so ratty that I did not include them here, but there may also be really good specimens from there that we should talk about in this article.
Styggedals-gangen, Herre, Tråk (Tråg), Bamble (Bamle),
Telemark, Norway
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Elledalen, Farsund, Vest-Agder, Norway
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Here are some notes about Baryte from Norway that may be useful to whoever writes this article.
Norway
Telemark, Brevik, Bamble. “A quarry at Bramble in the Telemark region of south-central Norway has produced a few fine, large specimens of yellow to orange to faintly bluish barite crystals, some of them transparent, in beautiful clusters with individuals to 15 cm across.”1
1. Mineralogical Record, Vol. 22, 1991, p.52.
You need a collector in Norway to correspond with about Norwegian minerals.
Telemark, Bramble, Herre, Styggedalsynken. “…golden yellow barite crystals to 5 cm from Styggedalsynken…”1
1. Mineralogical Record, Vol. 20, 1989, p.397.
Torgeir Garmo, Fossheim Steinsenter, 2686 Lom, Norway had some of these barites, ask him if it might me the same locality as the one above this entry.
Rock Currier
Crystals not pistols.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/28/2009 07:28PM by Rock Currier.