Badderen ( fkv, Paattari) is a village in the municipality of
Kvænangen in
Troms og Finnmark county,
Norway. It lies at the head of the
Badderfjord, about south of the municipal seat of
Burfjord.
European route E6
European route E6 ( no, Europavei 6, sv, Europaväg 6, or simply E6) is the main north-south thoroughfare through Norway as well as the west coast of Sweden. It is long and runs from the southern tip of Sweden at Trelleborg, into Norway and t ...
passes through the village. The
basic statistical unit (''grunnkrets'') of Badderen, which also includes the hamlet of Undereidet, had a population of 183 in 2015.
History
As early as 1743 there were reports of
copper ore found in Kvænangen, but further investigations were not carried out until 1827 by the
Quenangen Mining Association
The Quenangen Mining Association was an English industry that operated copper mines in Kvænangen in the 1800s.
Background
Around 1826, the Englishmen John Rice Crowe and Henry Dick Woodfall started a company to extract copper ore in Alta. This c ...
. One of the stakeholders in this company was the Englishman
John Rice Crowe, who already ran the
Alten Copper Works (later the Kåfjord Copper Works) in Alta together with
Henry Dick Woodfall
Henry Dick Woodfall (1796 – April 13, 1869) was an English businessman. Together with John Rice Crowe, he founded Alten Copper Works in Kåfjord, Norway, later renamed the Kåfjord Copper Works.
Henry Woodfall was born in Scotland in 1796, the ...
. Surveys of the ore deposits in Kvænangen continued for several years, and full mining in Kvænangen started in 1840, beginning with
Kjækan
Kjækan ( fkv, Kätkynen or ''Kätkänen'', se, Geahkán) is a village in the municipality of Kvænangen in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway.
Geography
The village is located along the shore of Kjækan Bay ( no, Kjækanbukta, fkv, Kätkäsenmuk ...
. Several mines were established in Kvænangen; the largest were the Edwards mine and Cedar mine. The Alta plant, which the Kvænangen mines were part of, merged with the company
Sulitjelma Aktiebolag in 1896. Then the old trading center of Badderen became the center for new mining operations in Kvænangen. An ore
quay was built at Badderen in the early 1900s with a road to the mines. A telephone line was also set up.
The director's residence at Badderen was dismantled in 1903 and rebuilt in
Sulitjelma for the new director of the
Sulitjelma Mines
Sulitjelma Mines ( no, Sulitjelma gruber) was a Norwegian mining company that extracted copper, pyrite, and zinc at Sulitjelma in the municipality of Fauske, Norway. Operations started with a test mine in 1887. From 1891 to 1933, the business wa ...
. This building was later used as the
Sulitjelma Hotel
The Sulitjelma Hotel ( no, Sulitjelma Hotell) is a hotel located near the mines in Sulitjelma in the municipality of Fauske in Nordland county, Norway.
The building served as the former residence for the director of the Sulitjelma Mines after it ...
.
References
External links
Badderen at FINN kartBadderen at Norgeskart
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Kvænangen
Villages in Troms