Guided mine tours leave regularly, 10 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. daily, through November.
Attractions include mine tours and a museum which concentrates on the area's history, concentrating on industrial heritage.
The festival includes lectures, children's workshops and mine tours.
There are also Apache historical sites, war memorials, museums, tour trains, and mine tours.
The mine tours were closed for the summer of 2011, but the above ground tours and interpretive center reopened.
The moderately interesting exhibition is made worthwhile by mine tours, which pass through the historic Nyberget mine, dating from the 1650s.
The 90-minute mine tour is more fun than it sounds.
There are underground mine tours and surface tours of the 10-head battery.
Optional activities here include hiking, historic mine tours, scenic flights, glacier walks and ice climbing.
Some mine tours are available.
