Väsman

Lake Väsman is a lake in Ludvika Municipality in Dalarna County of Sweden, in the Norrström main basin.

Description
Lake Väsman is 53 m deep, has an area of 39.1 km2 and is 154 m above sea level. It is about 14 km long in a southeasterly direction, with a width of 1.5 to 6 km.

In the past, there was steamboat traffic on the lake.

There is a major iron ore deposit below the lake, estimated at 640 million tonnes. In 2011 the Nordic Iron Ore company said it would try to start mining.

Basin
Lake Väsman is included in the sub-basin called the outlet of Väsman. The average altitude is 209 m above sea level and the area is 136.46 km2. Including the 53 catchment areas upstream, the accumulated area of the lake's basin is 1147.86 km2. Kolbäcksån, which drains the catchment, collects water from three rivers before reaching the sea after 260 km. The catchment area consists mostly of forest (56%).