Not really the 10th Tvedalen blog report, but it’s the 10th time Tvedalen trips have been blogged. I think… Was out in the wonderful weather today, eating dust. Have been wonderful weather here for a week now, since last blog. But the ...
I finally got out collecting again yesterday! Been weeks since last trip out. I must admit I had a trip to Tvedalen three weeks ago, without reposting, but there where absolutely nothing to find and I forgot my camera… I had a road cut stop before ...
Because of studies in Oslo on Friday and Saturday last weekend, I didn’t get out collecting. But the weekend wasn’t a complete waste of time! Of course I learned something new at my math-study, but the real reward was resulted by going to ...
Went to Tvedalen, and started this time the walk up to A/S Monzonite, or Vevja 2 as we prefer to call the quarry. I see that I need to add this quarry to Mindat… There was nothing to find, neither in the quarry nor on the dumps, so I headed ...
Saturday trip to Sagåsen and Tvedalen Had to get out in the wonderful weather, was about 19C in the sun. First stop was Sagåsen, to see if there was anything left from the blast 2 weeks ago. Of course everything was gone, and taking the ...
Mule Varde micromount symposium 2008 Last weekend I arranged the second Mule Varde micromount symposium, with help from my local geological society, and just like last year it became a success. It was even better, because more collectors came ...
I must admit that I’ve been lazy these first weeks of the New Year. No blogging and only one trip out to collect beside today’s trip… Shame on me… But here I go again, and not to disappoint the fans ;-) I’ll start with the first trip this ...
Went to A/S Granite today, and what a day it became! I started to check out some large blocks of larvikite at level 4, found some cavities with natrolite on analcime and feldspar. On a few of them there were groups of bright yellow calcite ...
Last trip to Tvedalen before the Christmas celebration, but for sure not the last trip during the holyday! They had blasted a lot since last time I visited the Tuften Quarry (A/S Granit). Also some areas rich in pegmatite, but the ice that ...
Zillions of crystals... Finally got myself down to Sagåsen and Tvedalen today, been a while since last time now… The weather was nice, but cold, was about -6C when I left home. Got a little “warmer” during the day, but… Anyway it was an ...
A day at the museum Since I was in Oslo for some studies this weekend, I had to visit the Geological Museum, not because of the studies, the museum trip was just for joy. And on high time, it must be almost 20 years since last time I visited the ...
A middle of the week… catching up thing… Was a trip out last weekend as usual, not to Tvedalen this time, but still to a couple of larvikite quarries; Malerød and Vardåsen. But just like in Tvedalen, nothing exiting to tell about. I went ...
Today’s trip went to Tvedalen and I visited four of the quarries. Started with Tuften (A/S Granit), continued to Johs Nilsens, to Arent and at last Østskogen quarry. I came home only with fresh air in my lungs. Weather was nice, but nothing ...
Today’s trip went to a rather unexplored pegmatite locality near Brokelandsheia. Weather was great, and I had great company too, having Knut Edvard Larsen with me. We had big expectations, from what we had been told by a third collector, but after ...
Went to Sagåsen Quarry again today. Took this picture: Sagaasen Quarry Wasn't that much to be found today. A lot of brown metamict minerals, most of it probably thorite. Some cavities with very small natrolite crystals, calcite and poor ...
Last Saturday’s trip, 13. October, went to Sagåsen quarry. I got a tip earlier this week that there were some nice apophyllites to be found. Those where gone, but there was plenty of pegmatite material to look at, and I stumbled over a really ...
Here's my first ever blogging atempt... I'm not going to be a super blogger, posting stuff everyday, but rather use this to give som sort of short field reports, show reports (twice a year...) and other things that might interest a few of you, or ...
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