While we were on the Swedish island of Gotland for a week last summer, we saw some evidence of the “kalk” industry, old and new. There is a huge deposit of limestone on the island which has been quarried and used for centuries.

We visited the quaint Bläse Kalkbruksmuseum at the northern tip of Gotland where, from the mid 1800s until the mid 1900s, limestone dug from a nearby quarry was burned in 3 large kilns to make mortar. (There was also a nice cafe where we were happy to partake of some yum-yum.)

After our visit to the museum, we happened to basically drive through a modern lime-processing site, run by Nordkalk since the 1960s. And, apparently, limestone has a zillion different uses in our modern world other than just in cement.

Here are some images shot at the Bläse Kalkbruksmueum and at the modern Nordkalk site in Gotland.

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