Kiirunavaara

Kiirunavaara is a mountain located in Kiruna Municipality in Norrbotten County, Sweden. It incorporates one of the biggest and richest our bodies of iron ore within the global. The presence of iron in the place become recognised already within the mid-seventeenth century, but at this early time conversation traces to this northerly location have been pretty insufficient to allow any predominant exploitation. Only with the development of the Iron Ore Line railway on the give up of the 19th century, which connected the ports of Narvik on the North Sea and Lulea at the Baltic Sea, did industrial mining become a realistic proposition.

The Swedish mining employer LKAB has been mining the mountain because the start of the 20 th century. The mining place around Kiruna and Malmberget, collectively with the iron port and steelworks at Lulea, made Norrbotten County one of the first, and maximum distinguished, regions of heavy industry in Sweden. The wider place has remained at the leading edge of mining and steel smelting and alloying era.