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Roros Copper Works and mines

Roros Copper Works and mines, Norway. Heritage site, underground, mining copper.

Why Roros Copper Works and mines is famous

Founded in 1644 and produced for 333 years. Nordgruvene mining began in 1657, and Nyberget (1650) and Olavsgruva (1936) offer tours.1,2,3,4

Story cards

What kind of deposit

Volcanogenic massive sulphide (Kuroko type)

Roros Copper Works and mines today

Where copper is mined todayMining in Norway

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Mines

An example ofFalun Mine (Stora Kopparberg)Roros produced copper for 333 years. Falun was the world's largest copper producer.1ExamplesKongsberg silver minesNorway's silver town Kongsberg began in 1623. Roros followed with copper in 1644.5

Places

Located inRorosRoros Copper Works and mines sits at Roros.1

Deposit types

An example ofVolcanogenic massive sulphide (Kuroko type)Roros Copper Works and mines belongs to the volcanogenic massive sulphide family of deposits.6

Sources

  1. Roros Mining Town and the Circumference Verdensarven.no
  2. Roros copper mines article GeoExpro
  3. Wikidata entity Q889399
  4. Wikidata item Q19387263 (Roros Mining Town) Wikidata (CC0)
  5. Kongsberg solvverk Store norske leksikon
  6. Mineral Deposit Models (Bulletin 1693, Cox and Singer, eds., 1986) US Geological Survey

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Chuquicamata from the ISS by Alexander Gerst (ESA), CC BY-SA 2.0. Pictures: Kopermijn te Kolwezi in de provincie Shaba (Katanka), Mieremet, Rob / Anefo / Europeana (Public Domain Mark 1.0); Dolcoath tin mine, Camborne, Cornwall: miners in a mine shaft, standing on wooden platforms connected by ladders. Photograph by J. C. Burrow, 1890/1910., Burrow, J. C., 1852-1914 (Public Domain Mark 1.0); Falu gruva, Lundberg, Bengt A / Europeana (CC0 1.0).