Frøyså, Iveland, Agder, Norway

Catalogue number IKM_227 of the Iveland kommunes mineralsamling. Fergusonite is one of the more common "black minerals" and often found in well-developed crystals up to 20 cm. Some kilos of fergusonite have been sold to the Institute for Nuclear Research in Kjeller during the 1950's for 25,- norwegian kroner/kg. Specimen size: 6 x 3,5 ...

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Like most the garnets from the primery pegmatites in the Evje-Iveland district the composition of this garnet lies within the spessartine area, but with a quite large almandine component. This group shows some crystals with well developed terminations and some crystals where other, now gone, crystals has restricted growth. These crystals are ...

This, I think is a rather interesting specimen with two cubic minerals (garnet and pyrtite) developed within a biotite book. Both of them are severly flattened, the garnet some 3,5cm wide, but only a few mm thick. Both the garnet and the pyrite show a multitude of crystal phases on the wide axis, but only the garnet has kept the outer shape of a ...

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Like most the garnets from the primery pegmatites in the Evje-Iveland district the composition of this garnet lies within the spessartine area, but with a quite large almandine component. With it's 3,5cm diametre, this was the largest crystal we found in 2009. It was found emebedded in smokey quartyz near a large biotite "star". Unfortunately it ...

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1 cm long fergusonite-(Y) crystal embedded in feldspar. This crystal was found in 2009.

This Monazite-(Ce)is damaged and repaired and just less than 3 cm. This monazite has not been analysed. Both monazite-(Ce) and monazite-(La) has been identified from the general Evje/Iveland area. La dominant monazite has only been identified from two quarries in the area, but the vast majority of the analyzed monazites has been Ce dominant, ...

Like most the garnets from the primery pegmatites in the Evje-Iveland district the composition of this garnet lies within the spessartine area, but with a quite large almandine component. This crystal crystal group has grown between to biotite sheets and is somewhat flattened. The specimen is 7,5x5,5x3,5 cm. The garnets from the primary ...

Catalogue number IKM_558 of the Iveland kommunes mineralsamling. Funny looking group of fergusonite-(Y) crystals embedded in feldspar. Size of the largest crystal: 5 x 1,5 cm.

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Catalogue number 156 of the Iveland municipality collection. A black crystal of Aeschynite-(Y) in smoky quartz matrix together with microcline. The crystal is visible on the top of the specimen. For more detail see the child photo. Crystal measures 1x0,5 cm.

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A 7 mm crystal of monazite-(Ce). Collection and photo: OT. Ljøstad.

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Catalogue number IKM_011 of the collection of the Iveland Municipality (Iveland kommunes mineralsamling). Length of the crystal 6,6 cm.

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Catalogue number IKM_551 of the collection of the Iveland Municipality (Iveland kommunes mineralsamling). Size of the crystal is 2,6 x 2,4 cm.

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Like most the garnets from the primery pegmatites in the Evje-Iveland district the composition of this garnet lies within the spessartine area, but with a quite large almandine component. Thie crystal is embedded feldspar, and is almost 2,5cm in diameter. It was found in 2009 The garnets from the primary pegmatites in the general Evje/Iveland ...

Catalogue number 156 of the Iveland municipality collection. Crystal size 1x0,5 cm. Krystallen er 1x0,5cm i pegmatitt sammen med krystaller av mikrokline

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Titanite (Var: Yttrian Titanite) – loose brown crystal section.

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A microcline crystal embedded in quartz in the quarry wall. The crystal is about half a metre tall.

A short tunnel has been made to ease the entrance to the quarry. The tunnel is about 50m long, and the main work has been done in the extention of and to the right of the tunnel. Most mine dump has been carried away and used for road construction

The main mine dump is to the right of the tunnel exit. The loose material seen on this photo is probably no more than 1/2-1m deep. Not a lot of material is left here, as most has been used for road construction

No details of this picture are known, only the name seems to be 100% sure.

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Gildredalen quarry, picture taken from the east.

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American Museum of Natural History label.

© Christopher O'Neill