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(1935) [MARC] Author: Jacob Vidnes Translator: Walter Guy
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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. 101

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