http://www.laplandica.com Updated Site: About Laponia, Jokkmokk, Outdoor activities & Older Mine Research etc. Sat, 28 Jun 2008 06:15:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en …is one way of starting a blog about our Great Adventure this coming year. So far, this last month has be intensely hectic and I haven’t had the time to update information. If one would start listing everything that had to be carried-out and done before leaving on a sabbatical, the ... http://www.laplandica.com/2008/06/28/2-people-and-a-sabbatical%e2%80%a6/ …has just begun to show its teeth. With fresh Irish votes being counted after Thursday’s election to accept or throw-away the European Union’s “Lisbon Treaty”, a sometimes referred to European Constitution that had previously lost favor with European member states, the results have proven to be a sounding shamrock NO! ... http://www.laplandica.com/2008/06/15/the-new-european-feudalism%e2%80%a6/ …in the Jokkmokk mountains was a result of continued searches for silver already during the later half of the 17th century. Silver ore, which eventually led to the Falk-Nila Mine, was first mentioned during this intense period of discovery. Through the years, many people knew about it, but no one ... http://www.laplandica.com/2008/06/04/the-falk-nila-silver-mine/ …is something that may linger in the minds of people as they feel the affects of the rat-race syndrome in their daily lives. Often connected with universities, sabbaticals are a tradition of higher educational teachers, lecturers or professors who, after a traditional period of seven years, thereby the word coming ... http://www.laplandica.com/2008/05/31/a-sabbatical%e2%80%a6/ …in work and things that must be finished before the end of June, I had an enormous pile of firewood that had to be stacked to dry. My wife came upon the idea of hiring three middle school students during the annual solidarity day, when students work helping people and ... http://www.laplandica.com/2008/05/15/being-almost-drowned%e2%80%a6/ … a Happy Jeep! Because of a soon-to-be new adventure, I needed a right-hand steered vehicle. It could have been anything, but it became a Jeep. Now, after over 40 years of driving, internationally, from over the road 18-wheelers to a horse and wagon, in deserts and arctic snowstorms, in small ... http://www.laplandica.com/2008/05/10/a-muddy-jeep-is%e2%80%a6/ …, located just north of Tjåmotis, had a small part in Jokkmokk’s mining history. In 1729, several years after the1702 abandonment of the first mining works of Kedkevare and Alkavare, mining inspector Seger Svanberg was sent to Kvikkjokk to inspect seven possible silver deposits that had been reported. During ... http://www.laplandica.com/2008/04/27/the-kiuri-silver-mine%e2%80%a6/ …, located within Laponia and Jokkmokk's burough boundries, were first mentioned near the end of the 19th century. In his travels in the Kvikkjokk area, the Swedish geologist Fredrik Svenonius found deposits of magnesite (MgCO3) in 1882. These deposits were in the Tarra Valley area and 1893, ... http://www.laplandica.com/2008/04/23/the-tarra-valley-mine%e2%80%a6/ …in Jokkmokk and Laponia, can be found some 12 km northwest of Kvikkjokk. Already in 1662, and in combination with the silver mines of Silpatåkkå in the Jokkmokk mountains, Isak Tiock wrote to the king about the discovery of a large and lucrative iron ore deposit. This deposit was so ... http://www.laplandica.com/2008/04/12/the-second-ruotevare-mine%e2%80%a6/ …this year was something I reported on earlier. At that time I mentioned how much and how heavy the snowfall had been. Now, as we approach the middle of April, I can stoutly announce that this winter has been exceptional with snowfall. Snow depths around Jokkmokk can reach up to ... http://www.laplandica.com/2008/04/08/snow-conditions-in-lapland%e2%80%a6/