Boliden (place)

Boliden
Boliden
State :	Sweden
Province  (län):	Västerbotten County
Historical Province (landskap):	Västerbotten
Municipality  :	Skellefteå
Coordinates :	64 ° 53 '  N , 20 ° 24'  E Coordinates: 64 ° 53 '  N , 20 ° 24'  E
SCB code :	8132
Status:	Crime scene
Residents :	1661 (December 31, 2015)
Area :	1.42 km²
Population density :	1170 inhabitants / km²
List of perpetrators in Västerbotten County

Boliden is a place ( Tatort ) in the Swedish province of Västerbotten County .

location

The place in the municipality of Skellefteå is about 30 kilometers as the crow flies northwest of Skellefteå and southeast of the lake Bastuträsket and the outflowing Klintforsån, which flows into the Skellefteälven from the left in Skellefteå . Boliden is north of the Silver Way (Silvervägen) called national highway  bypass 95, the Skellefteå about Arvidsjaur and Arjeplog to Norway leads. Provincial road  370 ( Guldvägen ) branches off at Boliden via Malå to Holmfors on Vindelälven .

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  Boliden on an aerial photo from 1939

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  Bolidens kyrka from 1960

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  Enrichment factory of New Boliden AB

History and economy

The history of the place begins with the discovery of an important gold ore deposit with a high gold content of up to 15 grams per ton of ore at the end of 1924. The following year the construction of a mine and the associated settlement began, the names of which refer to the one a few kilometers south Settlement Bjurliden on the lake Bjurlidträsket , whose name was incorrectly printed as Boliden in the Swedish general staff map used . The mine started operations in 1926; the first ore extracted was transported to Germany for processing . The settlement was built until the late 1920s according to a regular plan and building designs by architects John Åkerlund and Tage William-Olsson . In 1928/1929 a railway line to Slind was built on the line from Bastuträsk (on the Nordland Railway ) to Skellefteå, via which the ore was transported to Rönnskär near Skelleftehamn on the Baltic coast for smelting and shipping. The plants in Rönnskär for the production of various metals and sulfuric acid from the ores extracted in and around Boliden started operations in 1930, 1942 and 1952.

In 1943, the longest cable car in the world, at 96 kilometers, went into operation, with which the ore from the Kristineberg mine, which was built in 1940, was transported to Boliden and transferred there to the railway. In 1954, with the construction of a new plant, ore enrichment was relocated from Rönnskär to Boliden. In 1967 the Boliden deposit was largely exhausted, so that the mine was closed after the extraction of 8.3 million tons of ore, from which 128 tons of gold, 411 tons of silver , 118,000 tons of copper and 566,000 tons of arsenic and others over a period of over 40 years Products had been produced. The enrichment factory of New Boliden AB is still in operation, processes ore from the Kristineberg and Renström / Petiknäs mines in the region as well as the Maurliden and Maurliden Östra opencast mines and is the most important employer in the area. Despite this, the number of inhabitants in Boliden has fallen by around 40 percent since mining stopped in the late 1960s.

Attractions

From 1995 to 2012, the Bergrum Boliden , a museum dedicated to the geology of the area and the history of mining , was located in the original administration building of the mine, the first larger building erected in the village . The museum also displayed some of the minerals found in the area's ore mines . The minerals from Boliden include rare ones such as klockmannite and sternbergite , but also boulangerite , which is alternatively called bolidenite after the place where it was found . A new museum is scheduled to open in summer 2014.

The plain church (Bolidens kyrka) by the well-known architect Peter Celsing (1920–1974) , consecrated in 1960 , is one of the sights of the place . The former ore cable car from Kristineberg, which was converted into a tourist attraction for passenger transport after it ceased operations in 1987, is still 13.6 kilometers long today, but not at Boliden, but at Norsjö 50 kilometers to the west .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Statistiska centralbyrån : Land area per Tatort, folkmängd and invånare per square kilometer. Vart femte år 1960 - 2015 (database query)
2. ↑ It all started in 1924 ...  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ,   Brochure on the history of New Boliden AB (English)
3. ↑ ^{a b} Boliden in the Mineralienatlas
4. ↑ New Boliden AB website (English, Swedish)
5. ↑ ^{a b} Bergrum Boliden  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English, Swedish)