Key facts
- Location
- Falun Municipality , Dalarna County , Sweden
- Part of
- Mining Area of the Great Copper Mountain in Falun
- Criteria
- Cultural: (ii), (iii), (v)
- Inscription
- 2001 (25th Session )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mining community
- Country
- Sweden
- Located in
- Falun Municipality
- Area
- 3499.96
- Headquarters
- Falun
- Image
- Falu koppargruva July 2017 01.jpg
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- Commons category
- Mining Area of the Great Copper Mountain in Falun
- heritage designation
- World Heritage Site
- Commons gallery
- Falun och Kopparbergslagen
- product or material produced
- copper
- inception
- 1000-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1992-00-00
- date of official opening
- 1922-00-00
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Copper Mine in Falun, the Great Pit Falun Mine (Swedish: Falu Gruva) was a mine in Falun, Sweden, that operated for a millennium from the 10th century to 1992. It produced as much as two-thirds of Europe's copper needs and helped fund many of Sweden's wars in the 17th century. Technological developments at the mine had a profound influence on mining globally for two centuries. The mine is now a museum and in 2001 was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Falun Mine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.