Falun Copper Mine

1000 AD350 m deepCopper

CountrySweden

RegionDalarna

Year Opened1000 AD

Size/Depth350 m deep

MineralCopper

About Falun Copper Mine

A UNESCO World Heritage Site. Produced copper for 1,000 years until 1992. Supplied copper for Europes coins and churches. A collapse in 1687 created a 100 m deep crater, but no one died because everyone was at church.

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