Pellegruvan, Riddarhyttan.

DESCRIPTION

This mine is no more, this mine is an ex mine, it has ceased to be .... to make a travesty of Monthy Python's norwegian blue.
I reality this locality dissapeared in the winter of 1997-1998. It caved in, leaving a hole about 60m wide, 30m deep with water over most of the bottom.
It's sort of scary to think that just a couple of months earlier I was sitting on top of the mine, happily unaware of what was under my feets. When I think back to that day I remember a small depression about 20 m from us, but the vegetation was too thick to go there!
At least, I'm going to keep my cobaltite I found there! Not ready yet!
tobedone

VISITS

1997-10- I was showed this locality by my friends Britta and Allan Bäckström, Västerås. This was my first and maybe also my last visit here ....

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Mineral assemblage

Cobaltite,

Cobaltite
Cobaltite crystals in a matrix of arsenopyrite and pyrrhotite.
This was the second stone I picked up from the ground, then I spent one hour looking for more, only finding one small crystal more.
Collected 1997-10-
(300 dpi, 800x600, k)

Cobaltite
The same stone as above, but some of the matrix is removed, revealing a crystal of 8 mm. The crystal is at the left of the stone. It's also easy to see a number of smaller crystals in the rest of the rock.
Collected 1997-10-
(300 dpi, 800x600, k)

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	Cobaltite Cobaltite crystals in a matrix of arsenopyrite and pyrrhotite. This was the second stone I picked up from the ground, then I spent one hour looking for more, only finding one small crystal more. Collected 1997-10- (300 dpi, 800x600, k)
	Cobaltite The same stone as above, but some of the matrix is removed, revealing a crystal of 8 mm. The crystal is at the left of the stone. It's also easy to see a number of smaller crystals in the rest of the rock. Collected 1997-10- (300 dpi, 800x600, k)