Blacksåsberget

Hälsingland · Sweden · Mine

"Rich I may be, but my sister at Blaxås is richer", said the mine troll at Falun – and for three centuries the farmers of Forsa dug themselves poor on a mountain without ore.

Blacksåsberget in Forsa is known in mining history as the legend-haunted mountain, and is the place in Hälsingland where the most effort and capital were spent entirely in vain. Behind it lies a single line. A carter who in olden times visited the Falun mine is said to have heard the mine troll say: "Rich I may be, but my sister at Blaxås is richer." Nothing more was needed. From the end of the 1600s and throughout the 1700s men dug for copper in the mountain, and in the early 1800s the farmers of Forsa formed a proper company to get at the riches. By the 1890s there was a shaft some thirty metres deep, without any expert being able to show copper-bearing ore. Around 1900 still greater works were planned, and came to nothing. The Mine Lady of Blacksås lives on in local storytelling and is a central figure on the legend walks that still climb the mountain.

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Where is Blacksåsberget located?

Blacksåsberget is in Hälsingland, Sweden.