The Montola mine used to live in symbiosis with a nearby Loukolampi limestone factory, which got raw material from Montola and another, still operating quarry. A local enterprise Montolan Kalkkitehdas Oy started small-scale mining and limestone burning around the turn of 19th and 20th centuries, but the business became big only after Paraisten Kalkkivuori Oy obtained both units in 1920's. For instance in the 1970's, Montola alone supplied almost a fifth of all limestone quarried in Finland. Montola's advantage was, that it's stone contained dolomite, which was usable for many products but not available in some bigger limestone mines (like Parainen).

In 1976 the mine ran out of stone, and shutdown was inevitable. In a place like this, forests not-so-near the non-existing center of a small town, the buildings have survived well. They have (fortunately!) not been demolished either, so what we have here is possibly the most intact inland limestone industry relic of Finland.