Mora, Sweden sporting event is 1984 World's Strongest Man. The town of Mora is well known for its craft products. A famous Swedish souvenir, "dalahäst", a wooden horse, is produced in the village Nusnäs just outside Mora. The high quality yet inexpensive Mora knives are made in Mora. Steel production company Ovako has a production site in Mora. Mora as a "municipality" never received the title of a city ("stad") before the local government reform of 1971, but as the population exceeds 10,000 the "locality" is today counted as a city by Statistics Sweden. Mora, Sweden Mora is a locality and the
Siljan Ring by rocks of the Llandovery series (Lower Silurian). During the last ice age the area was covered by a thick icesheet. The bedrock was sculpted by the ice, with the softer Palaeozoic sedimentary rocks being preferentially eroded. These erosional hollows are now occupied by lakes Siljan, Orsa, Skattungen and Ore. In accordance with theories about abiogenic petroleum (that hydrocarbons can be formed without involving material from dead plants and animals), astrophysicist Thomas Gold suggested that there might be major deposits of oil and natural gas in the area. Drilling was carried out in the late 1980s and early 1990s but