by Ciro Santilli (@cirosantilli, 34)
"Joachimsthal" is the German for it. Note how it is just near the modern frontier between Germany and the Czech Republic.
It is from ore of this mine that Uranium and Radium were discovered.
en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Uranium&oldid=1243907294#Pre-discovery_use:
In the early 19th century, the world's only known sources of uranium ore were these mines.
Apparently the region was a silver mining center:
Starting in the late Middle Ages, pitchblende was extracted from the Habsburg silver mines in Joachimsthal, Bohemia (now Jáchymov in the Czech Republic), and was used as a coloring agent in the local glassmaking industry
A hugely important copper mine in Sweden.
Selenium was initially discovered from ore from this mine.
Figure 1. Source.
Figure 2. Source.
Video 1.
Mining Area of the Great Copper Mountain in Falun, Sweden by World Heritage Journeys
. Source.
Video 2.
Falun mine tour by Focus by Sohaib
. Source. Not English, but we can see the tour images at least.

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