Editorial: The Nordmark iron ore mines in central Sweden. Watercolour by Elias Martin, around 1790Minerals & Energy - Raw Materials Reportdoi:10.1080/14041049809409117None
Gunpowder had also been used in the mine, but only on a small scale. The orebody on Utö is rich in iron, with concentrations of up to 85 percent, compared to, for example, the orebody found in Kiruna, which today is around 45 percent. The Utö mines can be considered open mine...
The mines of Bastnäsfältet (the Bastnäs field) in Bergslagen (Fig. 1), and in particular Ceritgruvan (the cerite mine), was from the mid-19th century where the first hard-rock underground mining was performed to extract REE9. The main REE minerals in the ore are cerite-(Ce)...
It is situated well within the Polar Circle but since electricity seems to be indifferent about geographical latitudes, this station is able to run both the railroads and the machinery of the surface mines at a very small cost. The southern part of Sweden, which got a little of that soil ...
system to transport troops and goods, especially iron ore from mines in northern Sweden, which was vital to the German war machine. However, Sweden also indirectly contributed to the defence of Finland in the Winter War, and permitted the training of Norwegian and Danish troops in Sweden after...
Many old and defunct mines are transformed into sites for public visits, reflecting a growing interest in industrial history, which began in the 1970s. It is noteworthy that the field of industrial archaeology, also a discipline based around these sites, was already developed in the 1950s. The...
language reform in the early 1970s discouraged the use of the formal second-person pronoun to address persons of high standing; typically white-collar jobs in the office and service sectors have displaced much employment in traditionally working-class sectors such as factories and mines; dress stand...
This has sometimes been disputed since in effect Sweden allowed in select cases the Nazi regime to use its railroad system to transport troops and goods, especially iron ore from mines in northern Sweden, which was vital to the German war machine. During the early Cold War era, Sweden ...
He said northern Sweden, and the iron ore mines, were “old German territory.” Those Machiavellian tactics also affected life in Marstrand. By 9 P.M. the streets were empty. Almost everyone was inside. “The Germans like all of Marstrand to be ‘tucked in’ for the night,” said ...
In general terms, different classes in society in late and post-medieval Europe are thought to have had different dietary habits, although sub-identities (based on age, gender or maybe special groups like ecclesiastical communities or nascent industrial settlements, such as those around mines) also...