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The Danish mineral collector, Anker Svendsen, inserted for scale in front of the Kaveltorp adit.

Close-up of the Kaveltorp adits, connecting to each other 10-15 meter inside. The underground workings are flooded and the accessible parts do not show anything particularly interesting, that can not be collected more easily on the dump.

View of the Kaveltorp pit from above. The previous two photographs face the opposite direction, towards the wall of the pit immediately below. The town of Kopparberg is on the other side of the hill, behind the trees.

Quick and dirty list of species in Claus Hedegaard's collection:

Actinolite (green needles and laths)
Anthophyllite (intergrown maroon fibers and needles - very attractive!)
Calcite (massive & dull)
Chalcopyrite (massive, golden)
Chondrodite (dull, greyish brown in Calcite)
Clinochlor (micaeous, greenish)
Cubanite (massive golden, intergrown with Chalcopyrite)
Fluorite (purple)
Galena (silvery, cleavages, often with Sphalerite)
Magnesiohornblende (coarse single crystals in micaceous schist)
Magnetite (massive, octahedral crystals in schist or dodechedral crystals in Calcite)
Sphalerite (massive brown, often intergrown with Galena)