Kongsberg Silver Mines
Recognizing it as silver and quite valuable, he melted it and brought it to the town of Skien in Telemark county to sell it.In Skien he was arrested, the police finding it suspicious that someone would attempt to sell silver at such a low price.In 1539, a silver mining venture proper had been started by Christian III's with imported expert German miners.The price of silver eventually recovered in the latter half of the 16th century on increased demand for currency to pay for luxury goods from China, where the Portuguese built Macau in 1555, and the Far East.[3] The room now known as the Banquet Hall of the King's Mine was originally intended as an emergency storage space for the National Archives of Norway, constructed in 1943 and held 2,000 shelf-metres of documents and books.
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