Ødegården Verk, alternate names Ødegården Apatittgruver and Bamble Apatittgruver, was a series of primarily apatite shaft mines and quarries located in the Bamble municipality of Norway. At its peak, Ødegården Verk was one of the largest apatite mines in the country, mining up to 10,000 metric tons of the mineral per year, and some sources estimate its peak operating workforce at over 800 men.
Miners at Ødegården Verk in the 1910s. Supervisor Erland Eide is in the boater hat, front center.
The Ødegården community in 1921. The large house on the left is Dauxborg estate, built for Auguste Daux in 1875 and later demolished. In the distance Ødegården farm can be seen.
Part of the Ødegården facility. Note particularly the headframe (left of center), the minecart track (lower right) and the tailings (throughout).
A portrait of Tellef Dahll: geologist, mineralogist, politician, and businessman.
Bamble is a municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Grenland. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Langesund. Other population centres in Bamble include the town of Stathelle and the villages of Bamble, Botten, Herre, and Valle.
Aerial view of northeastern Bamble and the Langesund-Stathelle area (left side of the fjord in the picture)
Bamble Church
Turid Thomassen, 2010
Jørn Lier Horst, 2010
