Kyanite

📍East of Flora, Flora, Selbu, Trøndelag, Norway
Dimensions: 58 / 49 / 42 mm
Ex. Stockholm University (1881), Christiania University, Michael Krause

This specimen comes from east of Flora (“Øst for Floren”) in the Selbu area of Trøndelag, Norway. Blue-gray kyanite crystals up to 1.9 cm long are distributed across a white quartz matrix.

It bears a Stockholm University label noting it as a “gift from Christiania University (now the University of Oslo), 1881.” The piece was collected during the period when Professor Waldemar Christofer Brøgger was establishing the university’s mineralogical collection.

Also preserved with the specimen are its original 19th-century cardboard box and the old handwritten label still attached to the piece. It is not only a mineral specimen but also a historical artifact of academic and collecting heritage.