Smältarmossen mine outside Garpenberg is really dull site, which represents the different architecture seen on buildings built or rebuilt after the mining boom in the 1950’s. A style characterized by corrugated steel and an overall feeling of that “everything is just temporary anyway, so why care?”

After having shot on a very grey and dull day, I thought that that might have been at least part of the key to the gloom, but it wasn’t. A wonderful sunny autumn day exposed the same dullness.

Although the mine was closed in 1979, everything seems to have been preserved in a state of “as is”, like the last man simply turned off the lights and locked up. However, it seems like the mine is used as some kind of storage facility for the neighbouring sulphide ore mine at Garpenberg, which may be the explanation why the site haven’t been bulldozed.
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