Aijala is a village in the city of

Salo Salo or Salò may refer to: Places Finland *Salo, Finland, a town in Western Finland **Salo sub-region, a subdivision of Finland Proper and one of the Sub-regions of Finland since 2009 *An old name of Saloinen, a former municipality in Ostroboth ...

Varsinais-Suomi Southwest Finland (, ; ) is a region ('','' ) of Finland. It borders the regions of Satakunta, Pirkanmaa, Tavastia Proper (Kanta-Häme), Uusimaa, and Åland. The regional capital and most populous city is Turku, which was the capital city of F ...

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. It was the village of the year of Varsinais-Suomi in the year 2003. From 1677 to 1916,

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was quarried in Hopeamäki and in Aurums from 1684 to 1957. Copper was quarried between 1688 and 1831, iron between 1948 and 1961. When the mine's own ore was exhausted, it operated as an ore

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in the 1950s to 1970s for the ore that was being produced at the nearby Metsämonttu underground mine.

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Villages in Southwest Finland Salo, Finland Mining communities in Finland {{WesternFinland-geo-stub