Los, Sweden | 
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    Location: Los, Sweden
    Elements: nickel
    Scientist: Cronstedt
  
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         Los is a small village  | 
      
         the country store   | 
      
         country store is named after nickel  | 
      
         Cronstedt monument   | 
      
         on the top of the hill  | 
    
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         memorial to Cronstedt.   | 
      
         at the memorial   | 
      
         dedicated to Cronstedt  | 
      
         Cronstedt's profile  | 
      
         miners in the nearby mine  | 
    
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         Swedish portion  | 
      
         English portion  | 
      
         Swedish portion  | 
      
         English portion  | 
      
         Closeup of plaque  | 
    
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         Closeup of plaque  | 
      
         Closeup of plaque  | 
      
         Closeup of plaque  | 
      
         the way to the mine  | 
      
         "Road hump"  | 
    
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         "Visiters Mine"  | 
      
         mine museum  | 
      
         mine museum.  | 
      
         entrance to the old mine  | 
      
         The old mine  | 
    
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         "Loos cobalt mine."  | 
      
         Closeup of sign  | 
      
         the guide takes us down  | 
      
         Old timbers shore up the walls  | 
      
         nickel salts  | 
    
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         calcite vein  | 
      
         "cobalt blue" for porcelain and glass  | 
      
         anhydrous salt of cobalt  | 
      
         Blue cobalt glass  | 
      
         A souvenir bottle  | 
    
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         Farewell to Los!  | 
      
         Details of the sign  | 
      
         the minerals of the 1700s.  | 
      
         original copper and bismuth found  | 
      
         events leading up to the mining of cobalt  | 
    
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         Continuation of previous text  | 
      
         Falun Mine workers arrived  | 
      
         Sophiendal glasworks   | 
      
         rise and fall of the mine  | 
      
         The last days  | 
    
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         "Visitors Mine"  | 
      
         Description of the mine.  | 
      
         Description of the mine.  | 
      
         The memento tag  | 
      
 
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