Korsukangas millstone mines

The Korsukangas mines are the second largest sandstone mining area in Lauhanvuori. Sandstone was used to make millstones in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Millstones excavated from Lauhanvuori are still widely found in old mills in nearby provinces. Millstones have also been found in Tampere, and it is said that they were also exported to Sweden through Kristiinankaupunki harbour.

Sandstone boulders were dug out of the ground with a shovel and leveraged with wooden poles. The raw material consisted of either loose boulders in the soil or pieces of rock detached  from the underlying cliff by natural fissures. The sandstone layer was accessed by removing the loose soil, after which the stones were removed and roughly shaped by hand drilling. Some of the stones were already abandoned in the mining area. Today, these abandoned millstones and old trenches stand as a reminder of a locally extensive industry that is now gone and mostly forgotten.

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