Lapland gold rush

Map of the Kultala town by the Ivalo River in Inari, Finland, from 1874.

The Lapland gold rush, also known as the Ivalo Gold Rush, was a gold rush that occurred in the 1870s in Lapland, Grand Duchy of Finland, then part of Imperial Russia. The Lapland gold rush started in the valley of the Ivalojoki River in 1870 and lasted for a few years. Although the scale of the Lapland gold rush is not comparable to the major 19th century gold rushes, the Lapland gold rush has great local significance in Lapland and across Finland.[1]

  1. ^ A SHORT GOLD HISTORY OF FINLAND Archived 2016-10-30 at the Wayback Machine Gold Prospector Museum. Retrieved 29 September 2015.