Here is a short update on what’s going on in AS Granit and Bjørndalen quarry, in Tvedalen. Despite bad weather, cold wind and rain, I went to check the quarries today, Saturday 24th. I started walking to the top of AS Granit, as I could see ...
The autumn just has been too busy! It’s a busy time at school, it’s a busy time collecting in the forest, and this autumn it has also been busy visiting AS Granit every weekend, and a couple of weekday afternoons as well. Culminating last week ...
I had a trip to As Granite together with Jan Stenløkk, last Wednesday, August the 5th. After a visit to the Fen complex where we collected romanèchite, pyrolusite, baryte, calcite and goethite, and of course some of the igneous rocks, like the ...
Last week have been really busy, but what a week! To teas you with some keywords: Eidsfoss mineral show, trip to several localities and exciting news on an analysed mineral. Eidsfoss show first: I was responsible for booking dealers and find a ...
Some of you have complained about me not writing blog-entries this spring… Not that I haven’t been out collecting, but after New Year until the 27. June I think I have been out only four times. Just a fraction of field trips compared to last ...
Behoite! Behoite! Behoite! That’s the song I’m singing today, with a big smile crossing my face from ear to ear. It started the 27 of June, as some of you might have guessed already from the headline. There were some small, colourless to ...
Well, having some of you lucky bast*** in mind this morning, whishing that I was in St. Marie, I just had to get out into the field to collect. Dang I’d loved to have a beer with the gang meeting at St. Marie aux Mines! Instead I’m having my ...
This is a “short” overview of my year 2008, concerning collecting. With collecting I’m kind of hung up on field collecting, but I try to get in a word or two about shows and other related stuff. The ending of 2007 was extremely promising ...
This Friday I went to Kristiansand and Sørlandets Geologiforening (Sørlandet Geology society) to speak, and being on those parts of the country was of course used to do some collecting the day after, on Saturday 15. I stayed over at Harald ...
Like it have happened a couple of times this autumn, today’s trip result was based on a trip with friends ending up in a pegmatite I’ve walked past numerous times, and the only thing I’ve taken from it in the previous times are some fluorites ...
The hambergite days started four weeks ago, at a trip to AS Granite quarry together with Knut Edvard Larsen, the 21. October to be precise. We went up to the quarry to check numerous rumours of large natrolite pockets, with yellow apophyllite. ...
Last Tuesday I was invited out on an evening gathering with Dr. Wilfried Steffens and Svein Arne Berge, in A/S Granite quarry, Tuften, Tvedalen. Such an invitation is just impossible to say no to! Well I found them up at level 1 (se my article), ...
It’s been far too long since last blog entry from me, I know… I had a great plan early this week to start writing something about what have happened this summer, and also in spring, lots of things have missed my blog. But my plans where ...
Spring is absolutely the busiest time of the year for me, and the most wonderful, and I’m not thinking about mathematic examinations. Not really on mineral collecting either. Last year it was pretty good in Tvedalen these days, so then it was, but ...
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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