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Today nature is taking back the proud town of Laver in northern Sweden. But it is well kept as a sight of historical interest and well worth the detour.

First something about the location. Between Älvsbyn and Arvidsjaur there is 96 km of almost nothing. At the third of the distance closest to Älvsbyn there are some small villages along the road but for the rest of the way there are only a few summer huts. Laver is situated 14 km north of that road at about one third of the distance. This is land that once was as empty as land can be and so it is again.

Laver was a mining project. Copper were found 1929 and the mine began operations 1936 and continued them til 1946. In ten years the mine totally produced what had been expected as annual production and after ten years there was no more ore. The mine buildings and the village were mounted down and moved in 1947. Of the mine only this structure remains. It is not the mining tower, just the foundations for the machinery in the tower.