The mine

Falun Mine consists of the open-cast mine called the Great Pit, an underground visitor’s mine and several small mines and shafts alongside the Great Pit, besides a maze of galleries (tunnels), underground chambers and sunk shafts in the rock around and under the mine area.

The total length of the cavities is about 80 km, of which some 33 km is above today’s water level of approximately –220 m.

The maximum depth of the mine is 600 m and the deepest shaft, Oscar, is 440 m. Falun Mine has been worked since the end of the eighth century.

The mine was closed on 8 December 1992.