Øvre Dypingdal Mine, Dypingdal serpentine-magnesite deposit, Snarum, Modum, Buskerud, Norway

Serpentine pseudomorphs after forsterite with white hydrotalcite. Photo & Collection Øivind Thoresen

© Øivind Thoresen

This is a very nice specimen from this locality. The crystal is well developed and is nicely put on its matrix of lizardite and hydrotalcite. Size of crystal: 2,5 cm x 2,5 cm x 2,5 cm Photo & collection: Atle Michalsen

© Atle Michalsen

Large crystal of hematite with some yellow lizardite and white hydrotalcite from the Dypingdalen locality in Snarum, Modum, Norway The hematite crystal is 5 x 3 cm. Photo & Collection Øivind Thoresen

© Øivind Thoresen

Quite sharp crystal of serpentine subgroup (antigorite/Lizardite) pseudomorphose after forsterite. Also with some white hydotalcite. Photo & Collection Øivind Thoresen 2019

© ØT

Very good and sharp crystal of hematite on Lizardite matrix. Also some white hydrotalcite. Largest hematitecrystal 2,5 x 2,5 cm. Photo & Collection Øivind Thoresen

© Øivind Thoresen

Hematite in serpentine 6X4cm Hematite crystal 2,5x2,5cm

A specimen of hematite crystals in a matrix of Hydrotalcite and a Serpentine Subgroup mineral. The shown part of the hematite crystal to the left is approximately 3 cm. Photo and collection:A. Michalsen

© AM

A single aggregate of clinochlore var: leuchtenbergite. The label says Øvre dypingdal. Ex collection: T Kjernet.

© AM

You don't see many specimens from this well-known Norwegian locale, which was quarried for magnesite and serpentine. I love the color combination on this piece which hosts a few blocky, robust, dark grey colored crystals of hematite associated with contrasting translucent, yellow-green lizardite, a Serpentine Group species and white laminated ...

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Foliated, white hydrotalcite with yellow-brown lizardite at the top.

© 2023 Harold Moritz

Crystals of hematite ro 4 cm with white hydrotalcite and yellow lizardite from Dypingdal, Snarum, Buskerud, Norway.

© Knut Eldjarn

A very unusual, slightly crude, pyramidal habit Hematite crystal is on light yellow Lizardite matrix. Two smaller pyramidal Hematite crystals are also present. Personal collection of Sharon Cisneros.

© Eugene & Sharon Cisneros

An unusual specimen of hematite in serpentine. The piece features blocky, grey-black colored crystals of hematite measuring up to 1.2 cm sitting on bright greenish-yellow serpentine (possibly lizardite) matrix. Some of the hematites are a bit crude, but there are a handful of good quality trigonal crystals with sharp, attractive, lustrous, ...

© Rob Lavinsky & MineralAuctions.com

White, transparent, foliated hydrotalcite, with black hematite and yellow-green serpentine. Old material, purchased from RFD Parkinson in 1974.

© Andrew Hodgson

Foliated, white hydrotalcite.

© 2023 Harold Moritz

Hematite / Lizardite / Hydrotalcite Mass: 53g rlh2493

An unusual specimen of hematite in serpentine. The piece features blocky, grey-black colored crystals of hematite measuring up to 1.2 cm sitting on bright greenish-yellow serpentine (possibly lizardite) matrix. Some of the hematites are a bit crude, but there are a handful of good quality trigonal crystals with sharp, attractive, lustrous, ...

© Rob Lavinsky & MineralAuctions.com

An unusual specimen of hematite in serpentine. The piece features blocky, grey-black colored crystals of hematite measuring up to 1.2 cm sitting on bright greenish-yellow serpentine (possibly lizardite) matrix. Some of the hematites are a bit crude, but there are a handful of good quality trigonal crystals with sharp, attractive, lustrous, ...

© Rob Lavinsky & MineralAuctions.com

Serpentine-group (antigorite) crystal pseudomorph after forsterite. With some white hydrotalkite and some hematite. Photo & Collection Øivind Thoresen 2025.

© ØT

Hematite with yellow lizardite and minor white hydrotalcite. Peter Lof photo and collection.

© Peter Lof

Workers in the Øvre Dypingdal magnesite quarry. It is not known who took this picture.

© Brita Malmstein

A man and girl in Øvre Dypingdal quarry ca. 1913.

© Brita Malmstein

View if a special part of the quarry where the hydrotalcite (TL) is found. Photo Øivind Thoresen 2025.

© ØT

You don't see many specimens from this well-known Norwegian locale, which was quarried for magnesite and serpentine. I love the color combination on this piece which hosts a few blocky, robust, dark grey colored crystals of hematite (titanohematite) associated with contrasting translucent, yellow-green lizardite, a Serpentine Group species and ...

© Rob Lavinsky & MineralAuctions.com