Venset is a village in

Fauske Municipality or is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality located in Nordland Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway, traditional district of Salten. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Fauske (t ...

Nordland Nordland (; , , , ) is one of the three northernmost Counties of Norway, counties in Norway in the Northern Norway region, bordering Troms in the north, Trøndelag in the south, Norrbotten County in Sweden to the east, Västerbotten County to t ...

county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...

. Venset lies on the north shore of

Skjerstad Fjord or is a fjord in the municipalities of Bodø, Fauske, and Saltdal in Nordland county, Norway. It is a arm off of the main Saltfjorden. It is connected to the Saltfjorden by the narrow Saltstraumen strait, which has very strong tidal currents. ...

about west of the town of Fauske and about south of the village of

Valnesfjord Straumsnes or Valnesfjord is a village in Fauske Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in the Valnesfjord area of Fauske. The Fauske (town), town of Fauske lies to the east and the Bodø (town), town of Bodø to the west. The ...

Transportation

Norwegian County Road 530 Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe *Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway *Demographics of Norway *Norwegian language, including the two ...

passes through the village. The route was formerly part of

Norwegian National Road 80 Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe *Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway *Demographics of Norway *Norwegian language, including the two ...

which runs from the town of Fauske to the town of Bodø until 2011 when the

Røvik Tunnel The Røvik Tunnel () is a road tunnel that is part of Norwegian National Road 80 in Fauske Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It runs parallel to the Nordland Line between Røvik and Valnesfjord, just west of the town of Fauske. Before ...

came into service.

History

In 1858, the farmer Mons Petter brought the ore that he had found near the village of

Sulitjelma , , or is a village in Fauske Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. Sulitjelma is situated in a lush inland valley at an elevation of above mean sea level, above sea level. It is located on the shore of Langvatnet (Fauske), Langvatnet lake, ...

to Venset, where it was examined by the merchant Bernhard Koch. This led to the establishment of

Sulitjelma Mines Sulitjelma Mines () was a Norwegian mining company that extracted copper, pyrite, and zinc at Sulitjelma in Fauske Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. Operations started with a test mine in 1887. From 1891 to 1933, the business was registe ...

(), which began operations in 1891.

References

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