Baryte, Norway

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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.

Can you help make this a better article? What good localities have we missed? Can you supply pictures of better specimens than those we show here? Can you give us more and better information about the specimens from these localities? Can you supply better geological or historical information on these localities?


Baryte
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I am sure that there are other people in here that has more knowledge and better specimens and pictures than I do. Nevertheless I'll get this thread started. Norway is not a great place for baryte, and only the Styggedalsgangen occurance can be compared in quality to the international sites. I have however included two other sites that produces reasonably good specimens. Older collections may possibly have baryte specimens from the Kongsberg silver mines.
[Olav Revheim 2009]

Baryte
Norway
Telemark, Bamble, Tråk, Herre, Styggedalsgangen

Here will hopefully go another another picture(s) of a good baryte specimen from Styggedalsgangen

This location has produced excellent crystals to 10-15 cm, most commonly of a honey/amber colour, but also light blue, grey and colourless crystals are known. Baryte was mined from this location in a period of several years late in the 19th and early 20th century. The baryte vein is only a few (2m wide), but can be followed for several hundred meters. The nearby sulphide veins mined for galenite and sphalerite is not geologically related to the baryte vein. This is to my knowledge the best Norwegian baryte location. Although crystal groups are known, most of the material from this location is available as loose, single crystals. Both litterature references from Mineralogical Record refers to this locality, but other baryte veins are found in the general area.
[Olav Revheim 2009]


Baryte
Norway
Vest-Agder, Farsund, Elledalen


Here test production of baryte has been performed from two different hydrothermal veins. The baryte occurs mainly in white bladed masses, but can occationally be found in white, partly transparant, sheet like crystals up to 5 cm on the edge. The crystals are paper thin, and often embedded in later forming brown calcite. The second generation baryte are small colourless crystals rarely and barely exceeding 1 cm. I do not think that there has been much collecting from here, and very little material is available. Prices should not be very high though.
[Olav Revheim 2009]


Baryte
Norway
Vest-Agder, Kristiansand, Timenes


During road construction work in 1998, two baryte veins was exposed. Tabular white crystals was abundant. The crystals could reach minimum 8 cm on the edge, but the larger crystals was often covered by a brownish iron oxide, not removable by acid. Normally, the crystals did not exceed 1 cm, but could be found in rather large groups. The material was abundant during the road construction work, and local collectors have lots of material stored away.
[Olav Revheim 2009]



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/09/2009 09:59PM by Rock Currier.

Olav, Thats a good start. I did a little editing of what you did to bring it a bit more into the format of the articles that have already been done. Notice the heading of the article asking for help. That is a standard for all articles. Also notice that the localities have been changed to a reverse locality order. This is also a standard for the articles. I have removed your links to the locality page. The locality page can be reached by clicking on any image and then when the big image comes up you can click on the locality string in the caption and that will bring up the locality page if the user is interested in doing that. Also I tweaked the captions for the images a bit. You should be able to edit your article and see the code involved in doing those things. Keep up the good work. Perhaps you can locate other good pictures of Norwegian Barytes, add more description to what you already wrote or perhaps start on another mineral or Baryte from another country. What ever you think you know most about.

Rock Currier
Crystals not pistols.