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Description The world s largest underground iron ore mine is located in Kiruna Sweden The Swedish iron ore mining company LKAB abbreviation of Luossavaara Kiirunavaara AB was established in 1890 which makes it one of Sweden s oldest industrial companies
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Our raw material iron ore is mined in our mines in Kiruna and Gällivare municipalities It consists mainly of magnetite a grey black iron oxide that is also known as black ore Magnetite is naturally magnetic and also climate friendly as it requires less external energy input for enrichment and pellet production
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Iron ore mining at Kiruna Sweden When any ore body lies a considerable distance below the surface the amount of waste that has to be removed in order to uncover the ore through surface mining becomes prohibitive and underground techniques must be considered
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Ore type characterisation of the Per Geijer iron ore deposits in Kiruna Northern Sweden Kiruna in Northern Sweden is famous for its economically important iron oxide apatite IOA deposits consistently mined by Luossavaara Kiirunavaara AB publ commonly known as LKAB for over 100 years
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The apatite iron oxide ores of the Grängesberg Mining District GMD represents the largest iron ore accumulation in the classic Bergslagen ore province 4 with a past production of
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The entire mine must be developed with the exception of the production headings on the lower sublevels They will be developed after the mine has gone into production since the orebody is mined out from top to bottom 1 Production Shaft 2 Internal ramp 3 Sublevel extractions drifts 4 Production Headings 5 Orepasses 6
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In Kiruna the plant will be part of the production process in the concentration plant KA3 Here we will process the tailings sand from the iron ore production to produce apatite concentrate Following that we are planning another campaign production at our other mine in Malmberget says Ulrika Håkansson who is the Project Manager for ReeMAP
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The Per Geijer iron oxide apatite deposits are important potential future resources for Luossavaara Kiirunavaara Aktiebolag LKAB which has been continuously mining magnetite/hematite ores in northern Sweden for over 125 years Reliable and quantitative characterization of the mineralization is required as these ores inherit complex mineralogical and textural features Scanning electron
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21 ensp 0183 ensp In Kiruna the plant will be part of the production process in the concentration plant KA3 Here we will process the tailings sand from the iron ore production to produce apatite concentrate Following that we are planning another campaign production at our other mine in Malmberget says Ulrika H 229 kansson who is the project
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LKAB s Visitor Centre Kiruna Lappland 46 980 188 80 info Book The mine in Kiruna is the world s largest underground iron ore mine It is a fascinating operation where the ore is mined far below the surface using remotely operated machines and driverless trains
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ABSTRACT The LKAB iron ore mines in Kiruna Sweden are located above the Arctic Circle Two underground mines located at Kiruna and Malmsberget employ sublevel caving method to produce 30Mt/y of iron ore Much of the mining operation is automated for instance the production drilling rigs loading machines and transport systems on the
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Within the Arctic Circle in the northernmost part of Sweden lies the mining town of Kiruna where a $2bn project is currently under way to save no fewer than 3000 buildings As extractions of iron ore have moved increasingly closer to Kiruna the ground beneath the town grows unstable and will eventually cause its foundations to collapse
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The iron ore mine currently uses a longterm production scheduling model to strategically plan its ore extraction sequence In this chapter we describe how we modify this model to consider several different levels of time resolution in the short versus long term and provide guidance for increasing model tractability
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Kiruna Wagon is responsible for the manufacture of the body and the hatch system as well as for the final assembly We are proud to meet the high demands of the world s largest and most modern underground iron ore mine the LKAB Kiruna Mine In September 2024 we delivered the 1000 th wagon to LKAB Helix Dumper FAMMRR 121 for Northland
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May 20 2016As the mine on Kiruna s western border has expanded deeper into the ground ore is being removed from beneath the city s foundations — literally undermining the ground it sits on If the
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Sep 14 2022Sweden s northernmost town center is in Kiruna with a population of 23 000 or so is far north of Swedish Lapland Known for mining iron ore and landing inside the Artic Circle on the eastern shore of Lake Luossa the 100 year downtown is going to move soon because the mining operations are moving elsewhere So are its heritage buildings
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2 Iron ore production The EU has 9 member states producing iron ore including Sweden Norway Austria Slovakia and Germany However Sweden and Norway are the only countries in which significant quantities of iron ore are mined Fig 1 The quantities of iron produced from the mined ore have been between Mta and Mta in recent years
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From its height in 1937 to 1940 production of iron ore in Kiruna mine dropped from 7 to 3 million tons [9] Soon after the Germans fully occupied Norway they began pressing Sweden to allow unarmed German troops to travel on the Swedish railway system to and from Norway on leave On 8 July 1940 an agreement on this traffic was reached [10]
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Old mining equipment stands idle in the iron ore mine of Kiruna in the Swedish Arctic March 30 2024 REUTERS/Balazs Koranyi
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Kiruna Iron Mine is the world s largest and most modern underground iron ore mine It is owned by a large Swedish mining company called Luossavaara Kiirunavaara AB The iron ore site which began operations in the year 1898 is 4km long and 80m to 120m thick reaching up to a depth of 2km
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For this study the process mineralogical approach was selected for liberation analysis with a focus on parameters like mineralogy and mineral associations in the 13 predefined ore types
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dec 2024 nu2 år Kiruna Norrbotten Sweden Research engineer at the R D Process and product development team in LKAB Kiruna Summary so far Have been working with process and water chemistry related questions at kiruna enrichment/pellets plants Have worked with the new deposit Per Geijer related to leaching of easy soluble minerals
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A century and a half is a long life for any mine and the foundation of the Kiruna mine s longevity is a deposit which is 80m thick wide and extends to a depth of at least 2000m According to company officials that makes it the largest continuous iron ore deposit in the world and at grades of 65 to 70 iron it is surely one of the richest
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Iron ore is mixed with coke from super heated metallurgical coal in a blast furnace Heating Air that has been heated to around 1 200°C is injected into the furnace converting the iron ore to molten pig iron and slag Removing impurities Once impurities are removed alloying elements are added
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The difficulty in creating and obtaining a competitive edge in the mineral industry is rapidly increasing The Kiruna Iron Ore Mine in the far north of Sweden is currently thriving on the world market through firm managerial strategy LKAB believes in upgrading its raw material to produce a high quality iron ore product for sale to steelworks throughout the world
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Kiruna mine in northern Sweden is the world s largest underground iron ore mine The mine employs 2 000 employees Large scale excavation contract In 2024 2024 we excavated four kilometres of maintenance tunnels for ore mining at the depth of one kilometre We excavated a new main level at the depth of 1 365 metres
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The mountain called Kiirunavaara has been exploited by miners for more than a century but the vast seam of iron ore running beneath it is still thought to be the biggest on earth Roughly disk shaped it s more than 80 metres wide and extends down into the ground at a 60 degree angle for around 4km
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