Løkken Verk (or simply ''Løkken'') is a village in

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county,

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. It is located south of the village of

Svorkmo Svorkmo is a village in Orkland Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is situated in the Orkdalen valley along the river Orkla about west-southwest of the city of Trondheim. Svorkmo is located about south of the village of Vormstad a ...

, east of the village of Bjørnli, and north of the municipal center of Meldal. The village has a population (2024) of 1,293 and a

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of .

History

Løkken Verk was originally populated when the

Løkken Mine The Løkken Mine is an underground pyrite mine located in the present-day Orkland Municipality in Trøndelag, Norway. The mine was operative from 1654 to 1987, located in the mining community Løkken Verk. It contained the largest deposits of its ...

started

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for

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in 1654. The name comes from a farm at the place. The ore findings at Løkken Verk were originally about , and was the largest resource of copper sulfide in Norway. There was mining at Løkken from 1654 until 1987. Prior to 1845, the target was copper that was smelted, but in 1851 the mine transferred into mining pyrites that were exported, primarily as raw material for

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. From 1931 until 1962,

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and

were produced at Orkla Metal in Thamshavn. The history of the mining is preserved at Orkla Industrial Museum at Løkken Verk. In 1904, the mining operation was taken over by Christian Thams and

Orkla Grube-Aktiebolag Orkla Mining Company Ltd. () was a Norwegian mining company established in 1904. The company was the largest mining company in Norway in the aftermath of World War I, and was among the world's largest pyrite producers. After closing of the mining ...

, this group has evolved into the

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-company Orkla Group. At the same time, the Thamshavnbanen railway was built between Løkken Verk and Thamshavn (just north of Orkanger) to transport the pyrites to the port.

References

External links

Orkla Industrial MuseumLokken Verk
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