Knaben, Norway

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All locations: Knaben mine, Norway
Element: Rhenium, found in molybdenite

 

a roadsign notifies of accomomdations

unusual formation

view driving north

Approaching the Knaben Mine

road is narrow and primitive

The Knaben Mine

largest molybdenum mine

Molybdenum is added to steel

planes twice bombed the mines in 1943

site was not yet open for tourists

moody landscape persists

source of rhenium is molybdenum mines.

Looking for molybdenite

Success!

seen in the rock matrix

appears like solidified molten solder

Scheele distinguished it

through the fjords

time to drop in elevation

High risk of accident!

Approaching Kristiansand

ship that took us to England

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