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lapland gold rush wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 background 2 the rush 3 later gold prospecting 4 in popular culture 5 references 6 external links toggle the table of contents lapland gold rush 2 languages suomi svenska edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikimedia commons wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide coordinates 68 30 22 n 26 40 51 e 68 50604 n 26 680836 e 68 50604 26 680836 from wikipedia the free encyclopedia 1870s gold rush in lapland finland map of the kultala town by the ivalo river in inari finland from 1874 the lapland gold rush also known as the ivalo gold rush was a gold rush that occurred in the 1870s in lapland grand duchy of finland then part of imperial russia the lapland gold rush started in the valley of the ivalojoki river in 1870 and lasted for a few years although the scale of the lapland gold rush is not comparable to the major 19th century gold rushes the lapland gold rush has great local significance in lapland and across finland 1 background edit ivalo river in the late 1890s the first references to gold in the finnish lapland date back to the early 16th century when gold was discovered from utsjoki but its presence was not widely known until the 19th century 2 in the 1860s norwegian geologist tellef dahll was conducting a geological survey in finnmark county located in the extreme northeastern part of norway when he discovered gold in the tana river dahll found that the most promising sites were on the finnish side of the river and contacted the authorities in helsinki in 1868 the finnish mining board sent an expedition to lapland in search of gold finland which at the time was an autonomous part of russia was suffering from a major famine and the finnish local government hoped that the gold would benefit the country s deprived economy the expedition was led by the engineer conrad lihr who later became the head of the mint of finland after several months lihr and the expedition finally discovered gold in september 1868 from the ivalo river in the municipality of inari the discovery was seen as so prosperous that the government decided to pass a new law regarding future gold mining in lapland which was approved by alexander ii in april 1870 the new law repealed the former act which had given the emperor the privilege of all noble metals gold prospecting in lapland was now free for every decent man of the grand duchy of finland and the russian empire the rush edit gold mining by the sotajoki river in 1898 the gold rush on the ivalo river began in 1870 shortly after gold prospecting was made legal during the spring and the summer about 500 gold prospectors made their way through lapland to the ivalo river the prospectors traveled hundreds of kilometers by ski foot or boat to the gold prospecting area which was born to the confluence of ivalo and its tributary sotajoki 3 to regulate the rush the government established a headquarters for the authorities and service point for the prospectors called the kultala crown station in kultala the officials issued licenses for prospectors and purchased their gold there were also law enforcement officers and cartographers as well as a restaurant and post office 1 at its largest the number of government officials and gold prospectors was approximately 600 people this was a significant community as lapland was mostly uninhabited wilderness and the largest populated places contained only up to few hundred people 3 since the government fees and taxes were extremely high only the 19 wealthiest prospectors were able to make claims and then employ the rest of the prospectors the largest claims had 30 40 men who worked for 11 hours per day six days a week 3 the major claims produced some 10 kilograms of gold yearly but the rush was over soon as the gold started running out in 1873 the government fees were cut in half and a year later a special law for the gold prospecting on the tana river was passed 4 the ivalo river area was almost abandoned in the early 1880s and the few prospectors that were left moved to sotajoki and to the laanila village located 10 kilometers east in 1883 1884 the kultala crown station was used by the professor selim lemström for exploring the northern lights until it was closed in 1900 during the 1920s two companies were practicing industrial gold mining but both went bankrupt within a few years 5 later gold prospecting edit memorial of the 1945 lemmenjoki gold rush in lemmenjoki national park gold was also found in the norwegian lapland in the 1890s but a rush never occurred 6 in 1934 sami people from the purnumukka village found gold from tankavaara in sodankylä the discovery attracted several finnish prospectors as well as the swedish mining company boliden ab and the german architect werner thiede from hamburg during world war ii thiede served in the german army in occupied norway and returned to tankavaara in 1944 as the germans were building the schutzwall defensive line across the northeastern lapland as the german troops retreated they destroyed all the gold mining facilities in tankavaara except the ones built by thiede since the 1970s the tankavaara area has served as a tourist attraction including restaurants hotels and a gold prospecting museum 1 another minor rush in lapland occurred in 1945 when gold was found in the lemmenjoki river today there are still around 20 prospectors and 50 claims at the lemmenjoki national park producing more than 20 kilograms of gold every year the 2011 mining act prohibits all mechanical mining until 2021 but manual gold panning is still legal 1 in popular culture edit the lapland gold rushes have inspired several artists such as the novelist arvo ruonaniemi and the naivistic painter andreas alariesto the most notable films are the 1951 classic comedy at the rovaniemi fair by jorma nortimo and the 1999 drama gold fever in lapland which is based on the 1870 ivalo gold rush 7 references edit 1 2 3 4 a short gold history of finland archived 2016 10 30 at the wayback machine gold prospector museum retrieved 29 september 2015 shining gold lapland above ordinary retrieved 29 september 2015 1 2 3 lapin kullan kimallus elokuvan taustoja kultahippu retrieved 29 september 2015 in finnish kullankaivu toi inarin maailmankartalle kultahippu retrieved 29 september 2015 in finnish maakuntakivet lappi kulta archived 2018 01 05 at the wayback machine geological survey of finland retrieved 29 september 2015 in finnish lapland gold makes the area a nice place for gold diggers and panners lapland travel info retrieved 29 september 2015 gold feaver in lapland production design retrieved 29 september 2015 external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to lapland gold rush gold prospector museum official homepage v t e gold rushes of the 18th 19th and 20th centuries united states carolina 1800s georgia 1829 california 1848 pike s peak 1858 black hills 1876 nome 1899 fairbanks 1902 canada queen charlottes 1851 fraser canyon 1858 1860 rock creek 1860 similkameen 1860 stikine 1861 1862 cariboo 1861 1866 nova scotia 1861 1874 1896 1903 1932 1942 wild horse creek 1863 1865 leechtown 1864 1865 big bend 1865 omineca 1869 cassiar 1871 cayoosh 1884 klondike 1897 1903 porcupine 1911 australia victorian 1851 new south wales 1851 western australian 1880s 1890s new zealand otago 1861 1863 west coast 1864 1867 coromandel 1860s 1870s latin america brazilian gold rush began 1690s ouro preto brazil 1750 tierra del fuego chile argentina 1883 andacollo chile 1930 serra pelada brazil 1980 europe wicklow ireland 1795 kildonan scotland 1869 lapland finland 1870 africa witwatersrand south africa 1886 kakamega kenya 1930s part of a series on gold mining v t e financial bubbles market trend credit cycle irrational exuberance social contagion real estate bubble stock market bubble commercial revolution 1000 1760 tulip mania 1634 1637 mississippi bubble 1684 1720 south sea bubble 1711 1720 bengal bubble of 1769 1757 1769 1st industrial revolution 1760 1840 canal mania c 1790 c 1810 carolina gold rush 1802 1825 1810s alabama real estate bubble georgia gold rush 1828 c 1840 1830s chicago real estate bubble chilean silver rush 1832 1850 1840 1870 railway mania c 1840 c 1850 california gold rush 1848 1855 queen charlottes gold rush 1851 victorian gold rush 1851 c 1870 new south wales gold rush 1851 1880 australian gold rushes 1851 1914 fraser canyon gold rush 1858 pike s peak gold rush 1858 1861 rock creek gold rush 1859 pennsylvania oil rush 1859 1891 similkameen gold rush 1860 stikine gold rush 1861 colorado river mining boom 1861 1864 otago gold rush 1861 1864 cariboo gold rush 1861 1867 first nova scotia gold rush 1861 1874 west coast gold rush 1864 1867 big bend gold rush c 1865 vermilion lake gold rush 1865 1867 kildonan gold rush 1869 omineca gold rush 1869 2nd industrial revolution 1870 1914 1870s lapland gold rush coromandel gold rushes c 1870 c 1890 cassiar gold rush c 1870 c 1890 black hills gold rush 1874 1880 colorado silver boom 1879 1893 western australian gold rushes c 1880 c 1900 indiana gas boom c 1880 1903 ohio oil rush c 1880 c 1930 tierra del fuego gold rush 1883 1906 cayoosh gold rush 1884 witwatersrand gold rush 1886 encilhamento 1886 1890 cripple creek gold rush c 1890 c 1910 klondike gold rush 1896 1899 second nova scotia gold rush 1896 1903 kobuk river stampede 1897 1899 mount baker gold rush 1897 c 1925 nome gold rush 1899 1909 fairbanks gold rush c 1900 1918 texas oil boom 1901 1918 cobalt silver rush 1903 1918 porcupine gold rush 1909 1918 interwar period 1918 1939 1920s florida land boom c 1920 1925 fairbanks gold rush 1918 c 1930 texas oil boom 1918 1945 cobalt silver rush 1918 c 1930 porcupine gold rush 1918 1945 1930s kakamega gold rush third nova scotia gold rush 1932 1942 post wwii expansion 1945 1973 texas oil boom 1945 c 1950 porcupine gold rush 1945 c 1960 poseidon bubble 1969 1970 the great inflation 1973 1982 1970s commodities boom mexican oil boom 1977 1981 silver thursday 1980 new zealand property bubble c 1980 1982 great moderation great regression 1982 2007 1980s oil glut new zealand property bubble 1982 spanish property bubble 1985 2008 japanese asset price bubble 1986 1990 dot com bubble 1995 2000 baltic states housing bubble 2000 2006 irish property bubble c 2000 2007 2000s commodities boom 2000 2008 2000s danish property bubble 2001 2006 united states housing bubble 2002 2006 romanian property bubble 2002 2007 polish property bubble 2002 2008 canadian property bubble 2002 chinese property bubble 2005 2011 lebanese housing bubble 2005 2008 chinese stock bubble of 2007 uranium bubble of 2007 information age 2007 present 2000s commodities boom 2008 2014 lebanese housing bubble 2008 corporate debt bubble 2008 australian property bubble 2010 cryptocurrency bubble 2011 everything bubble 2020 21 ai bubble 2022 carbon bubble green bubble social media stock bubble unicorn bubble u s higher education bubble 68 30 22 n 26 40 51 e 68 50604 n 26 680836 e 68 50604 26 680836 retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title lapland_gold_rush oldid 1366670946 categories gold rushes 1870s in finland history of lapland finland inari finland mining in finland mining in russia hidden categories articles with short description short description matches wikidata webarchive template wayback links articles with 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