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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