Ghost Towns
Laver
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⚒️ Mines & quarries

Laver

Ghost town · Sweden

Abandoned
1947
Founded
1936
Population
—
Coordinates
65.767, 20.217
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Why it was abandoned

⚒️ Mines & quarries

Detected automatically from the text: It was a mining community where copper was extracted.

History

Laver is a ghost town located about 15 km southwest of Vidsel and 50 km west of Älvsbyn in Sweden which existed between 1936 and 1947. It was a mining community where copper was extracted. About 350 people lived there at most. The operations of the Laver mine ended on 4 November 1946.

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