Bleikvasslia is a village in

Hemnes Municipality Hemnes is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the Helgeland traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Korgen. Other villages include Bjerka, Bleikvasslia, Hemnesberget, and Sund ...

in Nordland county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...

. The village is located about south of the village of

Korgen Korgen is the administrative centre of Hemnes Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The village located along the river Røssåga, about south of the village of Bjerka. Korgen is connected by the European route E6 highway to the nearby to ...

, just southwest of the lake

Bleikvatnet Bleikvatnet is a lake in the municipality of Hemnes in Nordland county, Norway. The lake lies about northeast of the village of Bleikvasslia. The lake is regulated by a dam. The water flows out to the south and then down a tall waterfall on ...

Bleikvasslia is a former

mining Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit. The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the economic ...

community, but water started leaking into the mines therefore they no longer produce.

Bleikvassli Church Bleikvassli Church ( no, Bleikvassli kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Hemnes Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Bleikvasslia. It is the church for the Bleikvassli parish which is part of t ...

is located in this village. There is one gas station and store in the village. There are two

dam A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of surface water or underground streams. Reservoirs created by dams not only suppress floods but also provide water for activities such as irrigation, human consumption, industrial use ...

s nearby that produce hydroelectric power. There are many cabins scattered around the Bleikvasslia area that people from

use as vacation homes. The lake

Røssvatnet or is a lake and reservoir in the municipalities of Hattfjelldal and Hemnes in Nordland county, Norway. It has been the site of human occupation since the Stone Age. Its area of makes it the second largest lake in Norway by surface area. Wi ...

lies just south of the village along the municipal border.

References

Hemnes Villages in Nordland {{Nordland-geo-stub