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	Gjerdingselva (Gjerdingen), Nordmarka, Lunner, Oppland, Norway A 1,15 mm white, crystalline grain of dalyite with minor, brown janhaugite. Dalyite has only been found in a small area within the janhaugite locality, and it is found on or very near janhaugite grains. Dalyite from the Gjerdingen locality show a light greenish-yellow colour under shortwave UV light. The mineral has never been found in crystals at ...
	Photo ID: 124275 View Count: 298
Amazonite exploration
	Tennvatn, Sørfold, Nordland, Norway Amazonite-rich parts of the pegmatite.
© Martins da Pedra	Photo ID: 125968 View Count: 378
Mine buildings w/ local farmer in foreground
	Bleka Gold Mine, Bleka, Svartdal, Seljord, Telemark, Norway Bleka Goldmine, Svartdal, Telemark, Norway. Old postcard ca. 1900. The mine was operated in two periods: 1882-1901 by Compagnie Francaise des Mines de Bamble, and 1933-1940 by AS Bleka gruber. At top production the mine employed 80 persons. Only a few kg gold became the result of for the time a large investment. Story by Ingulv Burvald
	Photo ID: 209613 View Count: 132
A close-up of the dumps at Skarsfjell
	Skarsfjell pegmatite (Skardsfjell), Tørdal, Drangedal, Telemark, Norway The minerals are found in the amazonite-pegmatite. Mostly the minerals are frozen in matrix but some are also found in in small vugs.
© A. Michalsen	Photo ID: 204678 View Count: 85
a closer look
	Bjertnes pegmatite, Krøderen Lake, Krødsherad, Buskerud, Norway Photographed on August 2, 2005 by M.Mader
© 2005 - MMI	Photo ID: 124881 View Count: 167
a look downhill
	Saggrenda, Overberget Mine-field, Kongsberg Silver Mining District, Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway Photographed on July 29, 2005 by M.Mader
© 2005 - MMI	Photo ID: 124878 View Count: 146
A part of the main quarry - 2005
	Herrebøkasa, Aspedammen, Idd, Halden, Østfold, Norway For some weeks during the summer of 2005, collectors could enter the quarry and dig in the old dumps - normally laying inaccessable under water. After a couple of months the water level was back to normal.
	Photo ID: 198540 View Count: 103
A small part of the Lagmannsvik pegmatite
	Lagmannsvik, Hamarøy, Nordland, Norway The skilful Norwegian collectors Stein Rørvik and Tomas Husdal at the Lagmannsvik pegmatite, one of the type-localities for hundholmenite-(Y). Stein Rørvik was the first collector who collected hundholmenite-(Y), first wrongly identified as okanoganite. Tomas Husdal collected the material at Hundholmen that was used for the description of ...
© OT. Ljostad	Photo ID: 138727 View Count: 150
Abandoned main adit portal
	Bruvatnet Nikkel and Olivin Mine, Bruvass-field, Råna, Ballangen, Nordland, Norway Main adit of the nickel mine. August 2005
© D. Harries	Photo ID: 205127 View Count: 48
Adit entrance
	Heivannet Mine, Heivannet (Heivatn), Skien, Telemark, Norway The entrance to the small mine, only 7m long. Photo 15.11.2005 by Peter Andresen.
© Peter Andresen	Photo ID: 125392 View Count: 104