Jakobsbakken (locally known as ''Bakken'') is a clustered settlement in the municipality of

Fauske or is a municipality located in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Salten. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Fauske. Some of the villages in Fauske include Nystad, Venset, Straumsn ...

Nordland Nordland (; smj, Nordlánnda, sma, Nordlaante, sme, Nordlánda, en, Northland) is a county in Norway in the Northern Norway region, the least populous of all 11 counties, bordering Troms og Finnmark in the north, Trøndelag in the south, N ...

, Norway. It is situated south of Lake Langvatnet in Sulitjelma, just above the tree line at an elevation of . The settlement was formerly associated with the Norwegian mining company

Sulitjelma Gruber 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 w ...

. Ore deposits were discovered at the site in the mid-1870s, but systematic investigations were not carried out until 1886. Swedish entrepreneur Nils Persson (1836–1916) acquired eight sites at Sulitelma. In 1891 Sulitjelma Gruber was formed. Telephone service was established in 1891 and postal service was established in 1913. The transport of ore took place on an aerial tramway down to Sulitjelma. Jakobsbakken was by far the richest single deposit in Sulitjelma field. The area has numerous ore minerals, and at least 23 have been identified. The Jakobsbakken mine operated from 1896 to 1968 during which time 4.47 million tons of copper and zinc ore were extracted. After the closure of the mine in 1968, the civil section was purchased by the Norwegian Lutheran Mission and the technical part was razed or walled up.

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External links

Berg, Henrik, Nils Norum, & Odd Rørvik. Stedet Jakobsbakken. Sulitjelma: Sulitjelma historielag.
Mines in Norway Zinc mines in Norway