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grey granites are also eminently suitable for sculp-
tural work. The stone sculpture in the great Vige-
land Fountain in Oslo is being done in granite
from Iddefjorden. Granite is used for street-paving,
quay and dock construction, as a building stone,
and for grave monuments and sculptural work.
Norway has for many years exported consider-
able quantities of paving setts and kerbs, grind-
stones, and roofing slates.
Exports in 1911:
Granite (paving setts and kerbs), Value Kr, 2,663,100
Steatite > » 14,000
Grindstones, millstones > > 190,600
Roofing slates » » 31,000
Exports in 1933:
Granite (paving setts) Value Kr, 1,128,605
> (kerbs, raw) » » 82,298
> (kerbs, hewn) > » 1,400,903
Slate (roofing slates) » » 452,325
Ground felspar » > 255,596
Ground steatite and ground talc » > 470,951
Labrador (syenite) » > 630,315
Felspar, raw » » 216,247
Official statistics for 1933 show that the total
production of raw stone of all kinds was of the
value of Kr. 1,400,016. The total production of
hewn and further manufactured stone of granite,
labrador, steatite, marble, and so forth, stood at
Kr. 4,620,069.
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