Family Tour in the Cobalt Mines in the autumn holidays
Join a Family Tour in the Cobalt Mines during the Autumn holidays.
The tour begins at the Mining Yard - outside the Miner's Inn. Here you meet your guide and, at the mine entrance, receive your obligatory miner’s helmet and fleece cape. Inside the mountain, it is approximately 4 degrees centigrade.
Once in the mine «Clara Stoll» you pass through a 200-meter-long transport tunnel into the ore lake in the mountain. Along the way, you learn about the techniques used to create the many mining tunnels and extract the cobalt-rich ore, and the chemical process that turned ore to cobalt-blue pigment.
You will pass shafts that give a sense of the enormous dimensions of the Cobalt Mines. In Shaft 10 South, for example, it is almost 25 meters up to the ceiling, while in the Kormannsjakt, or Korman Shaft, the bottom is 40 meters below you.
Glass floor
400 meters inside and 50 meters underground in the Cobalt Mines is one of our newest attractions - ready to be stepped on. The underground glass floor in the Edvard Shaft is the first of its kind in the Nordic region. When this shaft was first cleared, we came across an original timber walkway left from mining in the 19th century, 20 meters down. At first, the question was, how to show this historic relic? But then our museum director, Tone S. Steinsvik, got the idea of putting in a glass floor. After consultations with numerous experts, her idea became reality - and now you can walk right out and over it!
For many visitors, even the most intrepid, it comes as a shock to see the old timber walkway floating 20 meters below them, but there’s no reason to feel unsafe: The construction was carefully tested and built to withstand eight tons. The Glass Floor is an exciting and spectacular element of this popular mining trip.
Suspension bridge
As if an underground glass floor is exciting enough, we also have a 32 metres long suspension bridge inside the mines. The bridge let us walk in the middle of the cobalt ore, in the Glück Auf stope.
Together we promise you this is an unforgettable experience.
The entire tour is on footpaths and can be experienced from a wheelchair. And if you want to join the tour, but don't want to step onto either the glass floor or suspension bridge, there is no problem.
During the tour, you will also have the opportunity to experience the chemical experiment "Blue Pearl"!
The tour is scheduled at 1pm and 3pm on these days during the autumn holidays:
September 28 and 29, and October 3-6.
Tickets:
Adult: 209 NOK
Children 4-15 years: 159 NOK
Under 4 years: Free
NB! This tour is only guided in Norwegian.
Terms of sale
Tickets can also be bought in the Mining Shop in the Miner's Inn if it is available tickets!
Remember that the Cobalt Mines are 8 km from the Works. The adress is Malmveien 620, 3370 Vikersund.
NB! Remember to check the spamfolder on your e-mail when the mail (dontreply@susoft.com) with your tickets can end up there.