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Kongsberg Silver Mines, Norway

Mineral locality Inferred from historyPermission required
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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokensCoins and tokens
Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: acanthite.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Rockhounding locality: world-class native silver in calcite veins

Historic silver district extensively documented on mindat and in Norwegian mineral literature.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Old shafts, unstable adits, deep water

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