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Mining of copper and zinc from massive sulfide deposits has a long tradition in Norway, with more than 450 years of production.. Major mining districts included Røros,

Mining operations commenced at Espedalen and Ertelia in the 1840s and with in- creased production in the following years from several mines, Norway became the world’s major

Cobalt is enriched in several other deposit types, including sediment-hosted copper deposits, magmatic Ni-Cu deposits and some of the volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS)

Mining of copper and zinc from massive sulfide deposits has a long tradition in Norway, with more than 450 years of production.. Major mining districts included Røros,

Historically graphite has been produced from three mines of which one, Skaland Graphite, is the only current producer.. The Norwegian graphite depos- its are all of flake

After covering mainland Norway and parts of the continental shelf with fixed wing magnetic measurements, a program for high resolution helicopter-borne geophysics was started in the

The Kisgruva deposit to the south of the famous silver mines at Kongsberg, is a VMS deposit enriched in selenium (c.4-500 g/t). Possible resources are 2-3 Mt of Cu-Zn-Se ore,

The most significant deposits are (1) the Tellnes ilmenite deposit (in operation) and (2) combined ap- atite, ilmenite and vanadium-rich titanomagnetite, both in the Ro-