Kiruna is Sweden’s northernmost city, and soon, it’s about to pick up and move two miles to the east, thanks to a mine. PHOTO: Co Exist
Kiruna is home to the world’s largest underground iron ore mine, LKAB, supplying iron ore pellets to the steel industry in Europe. In most places, ore is extracted in opencast mines but not in Kiruna. The ore body in Kiruna is four kilometers long and 80 meters wide and stretches for at least two kilometers in the ground. For the moment, they mine at 1 km deep in Kiruna but they plan to mine until at least 2030 because they don’t know the extent of the ore body. But the city is sinking.
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