The Future of this branch of trade strongly depends on how well it can develop new technologies and products with even better qualities at lower costs, less energy and less impact on the environment. One precondition is highly qualified and ingenious collaborators.

The history of metalworking in Sweden goes back at least 4 500 years. Traces of ancient metalworking, like metal slag and remains of furnaces, can be found on many locations. Place names, abandoned pits, buildings and villages, established in connection with mines and metalworking, are also reminders of a very long mining history. 

The main emphasis is on iron and steel, but some chapters also cover other metals, such as lead, gold and silver, mainly associated with the sulphide ores of the Skellefte Field, as well as the historically important copper and silver mining in Falun and Sala.

To our knowledge there is no equivalent atlas yet published worldwide.

This atlas consists of:

• 216 pages

• 34 authors

• approx. 200 maps

• approx. 100 charts

• approx. 350 photos

An excerpt of the content will be integrated in the interactive summarizing volume 'The Geography of Sweden', similar to the regional atlases 'Västra Götaland' and 'The Stockholm-Lake Mälaren Region' (in Swedish only).