Swedens Iron Maiden

Over 300 years since the discovery of a vast magnetite deposit in northern Sweden, LKABs Kiruna mine has become the worlds largest underground iron-ore operation

09 September 2009
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The earliest report of iron ore in the Kiruna region of northern Sweden was made by Samuel Olsson Mört, a bookkeeper at the Kengis iron works.

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