Falun has also railway rolling-stock factories.
The so-called "Gothenburg System" of municipal control over the sale of spirits was actually devised at Falun as early as 1850.
The Dal river, which enters the Gulf of Bothnia near Gefle, is formed of the union of eastern and western branches (Oster Dal, Rivers of Vester Dal) not far from the town of Falun.
Copper pyrites occur at Falun in mica-schists, surrounded by halleflinta.
Copper has been mined at Falun since the 14th century; it is also produced at Atvidaberg in Ostergotland.