SALA SILVER MINES NEAR STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN

 


Entrance to Sala Silver Mines, Sweden. The King was then the beneficiary of these mines. Now, they are owned by the Multinational Corporations, which are looting the national natural resources


In mines, the dynamites break deep into the ground. Machines pump out water and mud. Workers break the rocks and extract precious metals 



In Sala Silver Mines, a priest in a room used to pray for the workers. A surgeon sitting in another room was operating on the broken bones of the coolies without proper tools, anaesthetic drugs, and facilities. Workers working from 0600 AM to 0600 PM died in large numbers 


A number of audios and films in the halls of the open area of the Sala Silver Mines explain about this mine and the process of mining

Sala Silver Mine, in Sala Municipality, 120 Kms from Stockholm, of the 15th century, worked till 1908, with Bronäs Mine from 1945 to 1962. Sweden’s Treasure Chest for King Gustav Vasa, the silver mine was a key contributor to the Swedish economy, producing 450 tons of silver and 35,000 tons of lead from 50 lakh tons of rock. This mine of 318.6 meters deep, at 3°C temperature now, extracted silver-rich galena, zinc, and lead from dolomite marble and skarn minerals. Owned by Sala Municipality since 1988, the mine is a tourist attraction with tunnels, caverns, underground lakes, 60 metre tour, Ulrica Mine 155 metre tour, Great Mine Tour, Victoria Concert Hall, historic buildings, and a mining museum. An underground hotel at 155 mtrs, once the world’s deepest, closed in 2024, is used for storage.







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