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Soapstone at Laisholm

Soapstone can be sawn, cut and polished.

A soapstone quarry at the southeastern point of the Sörtjärnen tarn is reached via 200 metres of good footpath which begins 100 metres after the asphalt road ceases. Soapstone, and its specially fine variant steatite which is found here and is a clear dark green colour, has some very singular properties. It can be sawn, cut and polished. In addition it has extraordinary heat-retaining properties and is therefore used in stoves among other things.

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Directions

In Portbron along the E12 there is a road to Laisholm. When passed through the village and 100 meters after the dirt road start there is a trail on the left side leading to the southern Sörtjärn, only 200 meter of walk to the soapstones.