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A part of the main quarry - 2005 |
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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 |
Into the rock wall - 2005 |
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Herrebøkasa, Aspedammen, Idd, Halden, Østfold, Norway
In these druses, crystal filled pockets of smokey quartz were found. Good specimens of fluorite, albite (var: cleavelandite) and muscovite also came out. Som collectors spent a lot of time trying to empty the pockets before the water again filled the quarry. |
| Photo ID: 198562 View Count: 73 |
View of the main quarry - 2005 |
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Herrebøkasa, Aspedammen, Idd, Halden, Østfold, Norway
In 2005 the water level of the main quarry was very low after most of the water had been used by firefighters to stop a fire in the forest nearby. This gave collectors the opportunity to enter parts of the quarry that had been under water for decades. |
| Photo ID: 198520 View Count: 93 |
View of the main quarry - normal water level |
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Herrebøkasa, Aspedammen, Idd, Halden, Østfold, Norway
This is the how we find the quarry today - always full of water. Compare with photo 198520 from this locality. |
| © A. Michalsen | Photo ID: 204883 View Count: 101 |
