Metals
Silver
The older writers guessed at metals. Olaus Magnus says there was in his time no mine of iron, copper, or silver, and that the boats were fastened without nails. The fastening of the boat is on the boats page. The book puts the first silver mine in the reign of Christina, in the thirty-fifth year of the age. The inhabitants of Pite found it, near the mountains that divide Sweden from Norway. The finder the book names Loens Person, and the place Nasafialo. In 1645 Ericus Flemming, baron of Lais, opened the mine and had a melting-house built. A vein of lead, the book says, is richer than the silver and easier to work. The rock was broken with gunpowder, not with pickaxes. The manner of it is not set out. About 1658, in the war of Carolus Gustavus against Denmark, it was spoiled by the governor the book calls Van Anen. After that no one would pay to clear the mine. (Schefferus 1674)
The others
The book names later mines in Lule and in Torne, of iron and of a second silver. The spellings do not stay the same, so the list is not copied. In 1671 he heard of a gold mine. There was no certainty, and he does not insist on it. (Schefferus 1674)