Litlabø is a village and former mining community in the municipality of

Stord Stord is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sunnhordland. Stord is sometimes called "Norway in miniature" since it has such a variety of landscapes: coastline, fjords, forests, agricultural l ...

Vestland Vestland is a county in Norway established on 1 January 2020. The county is located in Western Norway and it is centred around the city of Bergen, Norway's second largest city. The administrative centre of the county is the city of Bergen, where t ...

county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. It is located at the northern side of the lake of Storavatnet, just northeast of the village of

Sagvåg Sagvåg is a village in Stord municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The village is located on the southwest coast of the island of Stord (island), Stord, about west of the town of Leirvik. The Stord Airport, Sørstokken lies about northwest ...

. The village had about 450 inhabitants as of 2001. Litlabø was the location for the

pyrite The mineral pyrite (), or iron pyrite, also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula Iron, FeSulfur, S2 (iron (II) disulfide). Pyrite is the most abundant sulfide mineral. Pyrite's metallic Luster (mineralogy), lust ...

mines of

Stordø Kisgruber Stordø Kisgruber was a Norwegian mining company which operated the pyrite mines in Litlabø at Stord in Hordaland, Norway. Mining for pyrite at Litlabø had first been established in 1865. Stordø Kisgruber A/S was established in 1907 and mainta ...

, which operated from 1907 to 1968.

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Villages in Vestland Mining communities in Norway Stord {{Vestland-geo-stub