The Kiruna mine is the largest and most modern underground iron ore mine in the world.[unreliable source?] The mine is located in Kiruna in Norrbotten...
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seat of Kiruna Municipality (population: 23,167 in 2016) in Norrbotten County. The city was originally built in the 1890s to serve the Kiruna Mine. The Esrange...
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Kiruna Church (Swedish: Kiruna kyrka) is a church building in Kiruna, Sweden, and is one of Sweden's largest wooden buildings. The church was built between...
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needed more mines. The Kiruna Mine, the largest iron ore mine pit in Europe, plans to expand operations in the future. The nearby town of Kiruna would be...
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Muke and Golestaneh (1982-91) proposed a magmatic origin similar to the Kiruna mine in Sweden, Hallaji (1992) argued in favor of a metasomatic origin, and...
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mine Ocna de Fier mine Rudăria-Bănia mine Băișoara mine Teliuc mine Dannemora mine Herräng Kallak mine Kaunisvaara mine Kiruna mine Malmberget mine Mertainen...
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Kiirunavaara (category Kiruna)
mining and steel smelting and alloying technology. Luossavaara Kiruna Mine "Kiirunavaara Mine". mindat.org. Retrieved December 1, 2018. "The history - LKAB"...
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transport throughout the war.[verification needed] The production ore in the Kiruna mine declined sharply in 1939 and 1940. The battles of Narvik and the ensuing...
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LKAB (category Kiruna)
Aktiebolag (LKAB) is a state owned Swedish mining company. The company mines iron ore at Kiruna and at Malmberget in northern Sweden. The company was established...
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Svecofennian orogeny. The iron-apatite ore mined in Kiruna, Malmberget and Svappavaara are all hosted in Kiruna porphyry. While generally well-preserved...
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Kiruna Wagon AB is a Swedish company specialised in the custom design and manufacture of ore wagons. Kiruna Wagon was established in 2004 and is owned...
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Hauki quartzite (category Kiruna)
Kiruna mine Kiruna porphyry Kurravaara conglomerate Andersson, J.B., Bauer, T.E., & Martinsson, O. (2021). Structural Evolution of the Central Kiruna...
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ground. The iron-apatite ore of the mine is hosted in igneous rocks known as the Kiruna Porphyry. "Malmberget Iron Ore Mine". mining-technology.com. 2010....
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Svappavaara (category Populated places in Kiruna Municipality)
mining started in 1965. The mine was closed in 1983, but enrichment of iron ore from the mine at Kiruna is still going on. The mine is owned by LKAB, and there...
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Kiruna Central Station (Swedish: Kiruna centralstation) is a railway station located on the Iron Ore Line in Kiruna, Sweden. The station is served by...
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Mining (redirect from Mine (industry))
metres (981 ft) below sea level. The largest underground mine is Kiirunavaara Mine in Kiruna, Sweden. With 450 kilometres (280 mi) of roads, 40 million...
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Kurravaara conglomerate (category Kiruna)
each other. Hauki quartzite Kiruna mine Kiruna porphyry Offerberg, Jan (1967). Beskrivning till berggrundskartbladen Kiruna NV, NO, SV, SO (in Swedish)...
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built capacity of 3.2 Mt/year in 1945. In 1962, ore imported from the Kiruna mine (northern Sweden) had an iron content of 63.69 points, compared with...
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2020. "M 4.9 Mine Collapse - 3 km SSE of Kiruna, Sweden". earthquake.usgs.gov. Retrieved 3 June 2020. Jonassen, Trine. "Earthquake in Kiruna: Most powerful...
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Swedish Transport Administration). The line also contains two branches, from Kiruna to Svappavaara and from Gällivare to Koskullskulle. The term is often colloquially...
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Hjalmar Lundbohm (category Kiruna)
Kiruna. On April 2, 1926, Lundbohm suffered a stroke and became unconscious. He but died two days later and was buried in Kiruna. Kiruna Mine Kiruna and...
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Luossavaara (category Kiruna)
(Northern Sami: Luossavárri) is a mountain in Kiruna, Sweden. It is the site of a now-inactive iron ore mine formerly operated by the Swedish mining company...
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(born 6 May 1951) is a Swedish mine worker, trade union leader, politician, municipal commissioner, and mayor of Kiruna in 1994–2003 and 2008–2010 (sharing...
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began to understand the potential of the iron ore mines in Kiruna, Sweden. Obtaining iron ore from Kiruna had one significant problem in that there was no...
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and southern Sweden. Malmbanan connects Luleå with the iron mines in Gällivare and Kiruna and the ice-free port of Narvik. Malmbanan has highest amount...
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Fernando; Deditius, Artur P.; Bilenker, Laura; Childress, Tristan (2018). "Kiruna-Type Iron Oxide-Apatite (IOA) and Iron Oxide Copper-Gold (IOCG) Deposits...
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pair investigate the death of a French national in far north Sweden, near Kiruna. It is the first in a series of mysterious, ritualistic killings. The town...
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Kuokkel mining field (category Former mines in Sweden)
open pit mine in the vicinity of Kopparåsen railway station on the Iron Ore Line in Kiruna municipality, Norrbotten County, Sweden. The mine field was...
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alongside him. She recounts when she quit the course to Kirsty Millar (Kiruna Stamell), explaining how Luca was the one who consoled and supported her...
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