Mons Andreas Petersen
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Mons Andreas Petersen
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Mons Andreas Petersen, best known as Mons Petter, was a Norwegian Sami farmer that discovered ore deposits in Sulitjelma in 1858. Mons Petter was a Sami farmer from the Skognes farm in Lakså along the shore of Øvervatnet in what is now the municipality of Fauske—at that time the hundred of Skjerstad. In the summers he used to haul timber out from the pine forests of the area around Langvatnet about 32 kilometers (20 mi) to the southeast. He had noticed veins of rust in the mountains. In 1858, he
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