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Hana

Hana

12.03.2018 - 13:16

Skreien

Skreien

12.03.2018 - 13:16

One of the employee's homes.

Lykling- gold

15.12.2018 - 18:23

During the summer of 1979 a rock was found at Lykling in Bømlo that contained 450 grams of gold, and at the end of the 1980s a great many gold samples were laid out for sale. In the old mining area there are still gold miners hunting for the precious metal. But, the big adventure stories are a thing of the past.

The quartz quarry in the mountainside above Kvalvikane

Kvalvikane

27.05.2018 - 15:24

In Ålvik quartz has long been used to produce ferro-silicon. The quartz was collected from the other side of the fjord, from the mountainside above Kvalvikane.

Frå kopargruvene på Tveit.

Tveit Mine

12.03.2019 - 15:31

This little mountain in the picture sticks up because the layers are tilted on their sides.

Toftøyna

27.03.2019 - 15:07

Einstapevoll

Einstapevoll- slates

06.05.2019 - 09:53

“On the country of Wallestrand…the rock almost everywhere appears to be of a slate-like substance, be it at the seashore, on the farms or in their distant fields”.

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