One of Europe's deepest and oldest underground mines, Pyhäsalmi is owned by a Canadian corporation called First Quantum Minerals, and extracts underground copper and zinc 1,400 meters (4,600 feet) below the surface. The mine has two shafts: one for the elevator that transports miners down and brings ore up, the other extending down to that level via an approximately eight-mile-long spiral that vehicles can drive down and up.
