Zinkgruvan

Zinkgruvan is a locality situated in Askersund Municipality, Örebro County, Sweden. It had 391 inhabitants in 2010.

Key facts

Settlement.official_name: Zinkgruvan
Settlement.image_skyline: Zinkgruvan zink mine Sweden 001.JPG
Settlement.image_caption: Zinkgruvan zinc mine
Settlement.pushpin_map: Sweden Örebro#Sweden
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Sweden
Settlement.subdivision_type3: Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_name3: Askersund Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_type2: County
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Örebro County
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Närke
Settlement.area_total_km2: 2.25
Settlement.population_as_of: 31 December 2010
Settlement.population_total: 391
Settlement.population_density_km2: 174
Settlement.timezone: CET
Settlement.utc_offset: +1

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Zinkgruvan is a locality situated in Askersund Municipality, Örebro County, Sweden. It had 391 inhabitants in 2010.

It is situated close to Sweden's second largest lake, Vättern. The village is famous for its mining industry started by the Belgian company Vieille Montagne in 1857, hence the name Zinkgruvan (literally "the zinc mine" in English). Zinkgruvan was founded around the mine in the 1860s, and the history of the village is closely tied to the history of the mine. The people living in Zinkgruvan are mostly mine workers.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zinkgruvan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.