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Kiruna Mine

Index Kiruna Mine

The Kiruna mine is the largest and most modern underground iron ore mine in the world. [1]

30 relations: Apatite, Dagens Nyheter, Delft University of Technology, European route E10, International Space Station, Iron, Iron ore, Iron Ore Line, Kiirunavaara, Kiruna, Lapland (Sweden), LKAB, Luleå University of Technology, Luossajärvi, Luossavaara, Magnetite, Municipalities of Sweden, Norrbotten County, Oslo, Phosphorus, Porphyry (geology), Proven reserves, Quartz, State-owned enterprise, Stockholm, Subsidence, Sweden, Swedish iron-ore mining during World War II, Syenite, Volcano.

Apatite

Apatite is a group of phosphate minerals, usually referring to hydroxylapatite, fluorapatite and chlorapatite, with high concentrations of OH−, F− and Cl− ions, respectively, in the crystal.

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Dagens Nyheter

Dagens Nyheter (lit. "the day's news"), abbreviated DN, is a daily newspaper in Sweden.

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Delft University of Technology

Delft University of Technology (Technische Universiteit Delft) also known as TU Delft, is the largest and oldest Dutch public technological university, located in Delft, Netherlands.

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European route E10

European route E 10 is the second shortest Class A road which is part of the International E-road network.

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International Space Station

The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station, or a habitable artificial satellite, in low Earth orbit.

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Iron

Iron is a chemical element with symbol Fe (from ferrum) and atomic number 26.

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Iron ore

Iron ores are rocks and minerals from which metallic iron can be economically extracted.

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Iron Ore Line

The Iron Ore Line (Malmbanan) is a long railway line between Riksgränsen and Boden in Norrbotten County, Sweden.

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Kiirunavaara

Kiirunavaara (Northern Sami: Gironvárri or Kierunavaara) is a mountain in Kiruna, Sweden that contains one of the largest and richest bodies of iron ore in the world.

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Kiruna

Kiruna (Northern Sami: Giron, Finnish: Kiiruna) is the northernmost town in Sweden, situated in the province of Lapland.

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Lapland (Sweden)

Lappland, often Anglicized as Lapland (Latin: Lapponia, Northern Sami: Sápmi), is a province in northernmost Sweden.

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LKAB

Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara Aktiebolag (LKAB) is a Swedish mining company.

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Luleå University of Technology

Luleå University of Technology (Luleå tekniska universitet) of Sweden is Scandinavia's northernmost university of technology.

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Luossajärvi

Luossajärvi is a small lake in Kiruna in northern Sweden beside Luossavaara.

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Luossavaara

Luossavaara (Northern Sami: Luossavárri) is a mountain in Kiruna, Sweden.

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Magnetite

Magnetite is a rock mineral and one of the main iron ores, with the chemical formula Fe3O4.

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Municipalities of Sweden

The municipalities of Sweden (Sveriges kommuner) are its lower-level local government entities.

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Norrbotten County

Norrbotten County (Norrbottens län; Norrbottenin lääni) is the northernmost county or län of Sweden.

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Oslo

Oslo (rarely) is the capital and most populous city of Norway.

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Phosphorus

Phosphorus is a chemical element with symbol P and atomic number 15.

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Porphyry (geology)

Porphyry is a textural term for an igneous rock consisting of large-grained crystals such as feldspar or quartz dispersed in a fine-grained silicate rich, generally aphanitic matrix or groundmass.

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Proven reserves

Proven reserves, also called measured reserves, 1P, and reserves, are industry specific terms regarding fossil fuel energy sources.

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Quartz

Quartz is a mineral composed of silicon and oxygen atoms in a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon–oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall chemical formula of SiO2.

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State-owned enterprise

A state-owned enterprise (SOE) is a business enterprise where the state has significant control through full, majority, or significant minority ownership.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic countries; 952,058 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area.

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Subsidence

Subsidence is the motion of a surface (usually, the earth's surface) as it shifts downward relative to a datum such as sea level.

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Sweden

Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

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Swedish iron-ore mining during World War II

Swedish iron ore was an important economic factor in the European theatre of World War II.

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Syenite

Syenite is a coarse-grained intrusive igneous rock with a general composition similar to that of granite, but deficient in quartz, which, if present at all, occurs in relatively small concentrations (.

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Volcano

A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiruna_Mine

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