Skorovatn is a village in

Namsskogan Municipality Namsskogan is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Trøndelag, Norway. Namsskogan is located in the upper part of the long Namdalen valley Districts of Norway, region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Namsskogan ...

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county,

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. The old Skorovas Gruber

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is here, but it closed in 1984. Skorovatn is located right on the border with

Røyrvik Municipality or is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Trøndelag Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Namdalen Districts of Norway, region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Røyrvik (village), village of ...

, just south of the lake

Tunnsjøflyan Tunnsjøflyan is a lake A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on ...

and the large lake

Tunnsjøen or is a lake in Røyrvik Municipality and Lierne Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The lake lies just south of the large lake Limingen, and just west of the border with Sweden. It is above sea level and has a volume of . The deepest ...

. Skorovatn is about east of the main

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highway that crosses Namsskogan Municipality.

Skorovatn Chapel Skorovatn Chapel () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Namsskogan Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the old mining village of Skorovatn. It is one of three churches for the Namsskogan parish which is part of t ...

is located in the village.

Mine

The ''Skorovas Gruber'' mine was the first in Norway to exploit a

sulphide ore The sulfide minerals are a class of minerals containing sulfide (S2−) or disulfide () as the major anion. Some sulfide minerals are economically important as metal ores. The sulfide class also includes the selenides, the tellurides, the arsen ...

deposit and produced

zinc Zinc is a chemical element; it has symbol Zn and atomic number 30. It is a slightly brittle metal at room temperature and has a shiny-greyish appearance when oxidation is removed. It is the first element in group 12 (IIB) of the periodic tabl ...

and

copper Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu (from Latin ) and atomic number 29. It is a soft, malleable, and ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. A freshly exposed surface of pure copper has a pinkish-orang ...

. The mine discharged

tailings In mining, tailings or tails are the materials left over after the process of separating the valuable fraction from the uneconomic fraction (gangue) of an ore. Tailings are different from overburden, which is the waste rock or other material ...

into a nearby lake, but the contamination from this process has been deemed relatively slight. The mine closed in 1984. Before its closing, virtually everyone that lived in and around Skorovatn worked directly or indirectly for the mining operation.

References

Villages in Trøndelag Namsskogan {{Trøndelag-geo-stub