Hällsjögruvan - the Hällsjö mine seems like a mining adventure taken out of a Wild West movie or some chaotic remains of an ancient civilization. You really need to fight your way through the dense forest that has regained this spot cleared by man, presumably during the mining bonanza in the 1950s. Everything just breathes speed and a sense of being very temporary. All buildings were made with very basic foundations and all structures were made with wood and the owners did not even care to bring in electricity - all equipment seems to have been driven with Diesel engines and on-site generators.

The only thing I know about the site is that it closed already in 1962 so a guess is that a questionable outcome of the 70 meter deep mine together with the steeply falling ore prices in the early 1960s simply resulted in a vote in a board room somewhere, and wham - the place was doomed and everyone just left. A possible explanation why so much stuff was left could be that there were thoughts of resuming the operations in a later stage, but that later stage never came. The mining business went into a deep recession in the early 1960’s that killed the entire mining industry in mid-Sweden the following thrity years.

Really far away from anything, the site is just amazing in the ultimate sense of abandonment and the power of Mother Nature. Scattered around the water filled pit opening is a vast amount of diverse scrap and decomposed wood that no one ever cared about.
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