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This chapter outlines the geological mapping, prospecting, economic planning, and ore surveys that were carried out by the public organisation Geological Survey of Norway and links this work to the start-up of new mining projects. The chapter first provides an introduction to the importance of such work for the development of mining and then goes on to relate the work of the Survey to the advance of the mining sector and the branching out of the large-scale electro-metallurgical industry in Norway in the late nineteenth century by using articles, reports, and secondary literature.

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  1. 1.

    P. David, G. and Wright, “Increasing Returns and the Genesis of American Resource Abundance”, Oxford Journals, vol. 6, issue 2 (1997).

  2. 2.

    Own translation. S. Macchiavello Varas, El problema de la industria del cobre en Chile y sus proyecciones económicas y sociales (Santiago, 2010), p. 26.

  3. 3.

    P. David , G. and Wright , “Increasing Returns and the Genesis of American Resource Abundance”, Oxford Journals, vol. 6, issue 2 (1997), p. 223.

  4. 4.

    Quote taken from T. Manning, Government in Science The U.S. Geological Survey, 1867–1894 (Lexington, 1967), p. 11.

  5. 5.

    J. Gandarillas Matta, Estado actual de la industrial minera del cobre en el extranjero y en Chile (Santiago, 1915), p. 75.

  6. 6.

    Own translation: Boletin de la Sociedad Nacional de Minería (Santiago, 1931), p. 355.

  7. 7.

    Boletin de la Sociedad Nacional de Minería (Santiago, 1939), pp. 88, 122, 300, and 310.

  8. 8.

    D. De Ferranti et al. From Natural Resources to the Knowledge Economy (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 6.

  9. 9.

    UIO, Universitets- og skoleannaler (Kristiania, 1834–1910).

  10. 10.

    A. K. Børresen and A. Wale, Kartleggerne (Trondheim, 2008). 52.

  11. 11.

    Studenterne fra 1883 (Kristiania, 1908), pp. 335–338.

  12. 12.

    UIO, Universitets- og skoleannaler (Kristiania, 1870), p. 49.

  13. 13.

    Bergingeniørforening, Tidsskrift for bergvæsen (Oslo, 1917), p. 71.

  14. 14.

    A. K. Børresen and A. Wale, Kartleggerne (Trondheim, 2008). 52.

  15. 15.

    J. A. Schneider, Studenterne fra 1864 (Skien, 1916), pp. 95–99.

  16. 16.

    Studenterne fra 1886 (Kristiania, 1911), pp. 86–87.

  17. 17.

    A. K. Børresen and A. Wale, Kartleggerne (Trondheim, 2008), pp. 96 and 124.

  18. 18.

    H. Carstens, …Bygger i Berge (Trondheim, 2000), pp. 72–73; A. K. Børresen, Bergtatt: Johan H. L. Vogt – professor, rådgiver og familiemann (Trondheim, 2011); A. K. Børresen and J. T. Kobberrød (red.) Bergingeniørutdanning i Norge gjennom 250 år (Trondheim, 2007); AA. K. Børresen and A. Wale (red.), Vitenskap og teknologi for samfunnet? Bergfagene som kunnskapsfelt (Trondheim, 2005).

  19. 19.

    O. Wicken , “The Norwegian Path Creating and Building Enabling Sectors”, working paper, Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo, 2010, p. 15.

  20. 20.

    Own translation: A. K. Børresen and A. Wale, Kartleggerne (Trondheim, 2008), p. 107.

  21. 21.

    Some pyrite mining companies also produced copper.

  22. 22.

    See A. K. Børresen and A. Wale, Kartleggerne (Trondheim, 2008), pp. 101–106 and A. K. Børresen, Bergtatt: Johan H. L. Vogt – professor, rådgiver og familiemann (Trondheim, 2011).

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Ranestad, K. (2018). National Geological Survey of Norway. In: Knowledge-Based Growth in Natural Resource Intensive Economies. Palgrave Studies in Economic History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96412-6_7

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