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Mine buildings w/ local farmer in foreground | |
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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 | |
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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 |
Adit entrance | |
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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 |
Amazonite | |
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Høydalen (Høydalen seter), Tørdal, Drangedal, Telemark, Norway Amazonite surrounded by quartz, length of hammer is ~70 cm. August 2006. |
| © D. Harries | Photo ID: 205573 View Count: 74 |
Books of lepidolite | |
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Høydalen (Høydalen seter), Tørdal, Drangedal, Telemark, Norway Books of lepidolite in the wall of the pegmatite at the upper quarry, Høydalen. aug. 2007 |
| © K.E.Larsen | Photo ID: 192466 View Count: 137 |
Calcite crystals | |
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Hydro Quarry, Hydro Vein, Fen Complex, Nome, Telemark, Norway A boulder surface covered with weathered and dirty calcite crystals, from one of the druses shown in an other photo from this site. Photo taken 02.04.2007 by Peter Andresen. |
| © Peter Andresen | Photo ID: 128247 View Count: 107 |
Calcite druses | |
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Hydro Quarry, Hydro Vein, Fen Complex, Nome, Telemark, Norway A couple of druses lined (what's left of it) with weathered calcite crystals (not visible on the photo) - note the sizes of the druses, with Alf Olav Larsen standing in front of them. Photo taken 02.04.2007 by Peter Andresen. |
| © Peter Andresen | Photo ID: 128246 View Count: 130 |
Collecting in the quarry | |
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Kalstadgangen, Lindvikskollen-Kalstadgangen pegmatite, Kragerø, Telemark, Norway Knut Edvard Larsen Collecting in one of the Lindvikskollen quarries. The black plates seen in the wall are ilmenite. Euxenite-(Y) are often found in this plates. 19.08.2005. Photo by Peter Andresen. |
| © Peter Andresen | Photo ID: 124981 View Count: 208 |
Collecting in the quarry | |
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Sjåen feldspar quarry (Høgsjåen), Kragerø, Telemark, Norway Knut Edvard Larsen collecting in the part of the quarry that is not filled with water. Picture taken 3. Nov. 2007. |
| © Peter Andresen | Photo ID: 132474 View Count: 211 |
Damtjernite (damkjernite) | |
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Hydro Quarry, Hydro Vein, Fen Complex, Nome, Telemark, Norway A vein of damtjernite (damkjernite) in the Hydro Quarry. The photographer holding a sample of this nepheline lamprophyre rock showing the large phenocrysts of phlogopite well. Photo taken 02.04.2007 by Peter Andresen. |
| © Peter Andresen | Photo ID: 128245 View Count: 119 |
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