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The double mine
Pictures from deserted buildings at two abandoned iron ore mines
The M-mine and the S-mine (not their real name) lie hardly one kilometer apart.
The ore at the S-mine was discovered around 1870 and the production started in 1881. The following year the M-mine ore
was found. Several small mines were opened in the area. The ore area is not too rich and the profitability
was not to good and the small mines were not
open all the time. In the 1940's new owners put the area in order and made an underground connection between
the S and the M mine. The buildings left are all younger than 1940. The mine was closed in 1972. In the 1970's most
Swedish mines were closed due to lack of profitability.
The red building houses office and locker-rooms. The light gray tower is the headframe of the S-mine. Both were constructed 1956-58.
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