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Roros

Boom town, Norway.

About Roros

Settlement in Røros Municipality, Norway. Mining town and circumference, inscribed in 1980 and with boundaries modified in 2010.1,2

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Mines

Worked atRoros Copper Works and minesRoros lies close to Roros Copper Works and mines.1

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q10428572 (Roros)
  2. Roros Mining Town and the Circumference UNESCO World Heritage Centre

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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