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Article: KONGSBERG REVISITED.(Norway, silver mine)
- Article from:
- The Mineralogical Record
- Article date:
- May 1, 2001
- Author:
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For more than 300 years the Kongsberg silver district in Norway produced substantial quantities of extraordinary crystallized and wire silver specimens. Abandoned in 1958, the mines have recently attracted renewed interest among enterprising mineral collectors and museum scientists. Some of these specialists have rappelled hundreds of feet down abandoned, ice-sheathed air shafts into the old mine workings, many not visited by man in over 200 years. Recent research in the mines' archives has uncovered fascinating unreported data about old-time Kongsberg mines and miners. This article summarizes many of the latest discoveries.
INTRODUCTION
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