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ht; and very fast light switches (Kerr cells).
Up to the early 1920’s the Helgustaðir mine ap-
pears to have supplied almost all the Iceland spar
crystals used in the construction of Nicol prisms, and
many of those used in other research. The crystals
were collected sporadically until the mid–19th cen-
tury. Organized quarrying by local entrepreneurs took
place in 1855–60 and especially in 1863–72. After
acquisition of the site by the State in 1879, extracti-
on was carried out at intervals in 1882–1925.
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