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Malmberget ("The Ore Mountain", Finnish and Meänkieli: Malmivaara) is a locality and mining town situated in Gällivare Municipality, Norrbotten County, Sweden. It had 5,590 inhabitants in 2010, reduced to 927 by December 2020. [1]
The Malmberget mine (Swedish: Malmbergsgruvan) is one of the largest iron ore mines in Sweden. The mine is located in Malmberget in Norrbotten County, Lapland. The mine which is owned by Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara AB (LKAB) has an annual production capacity of over 5 million tonnes of iron ore.
Dec 28, 2023 · Visit LKAB's iron ore mine in Malmberget and get an insight into one of Sweden's most important industries. The entire mining process is presented at LKAB's research and visitor center before the bus journey descends 1250 meters underground.
Malmberget is known as a major site for the extraction of iron ore (magnetite and hematite) from deep mines by the major Swedish mining company LKAB. The iron ore mining started in 1741 at the Illuvaara mountain, later known as Gällivare Malmberg and eventually just Malmberget.
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Malmberget’s ores are hosted in Precambrian volcanic rocks that have largely been metamorphosed to gneisses. Containing apatite-bearing iron ore, the entire deposit complex has been strongly folded and now consists of a number of ore sheets that may have originally been connected. Most orebodies lie within the 6.5km-long main ore zone. Magnetite is...
Due to presence of many orebodies, mining at Malmberget is conducted at different levels. The main haulage levels are at 600m, 815m and 1,000m. Large-scale sub-level caving, developed in Malmberget, is the predominant mining method. As at Kiruna, electric-powered, remote-controlled drilling and loading equipment is used, allowing very high labour p...
All of the ore mined at Malmberget is crushed and screened and is then upgraded using magnetic separation technology. Concentrator output is then processed to give sinter fines, olivine pellets or concentrate for iron powder production. In 2004, LKAB announced a $350m investment in a third pelletising plant for Malmberget. Designed and built by Out...
The completion of the KK4 pelletising plant at Kiruna in June 2008 resulted in Malmberget becoming LKAB’s sole producer of iron-ore fines. The main haulage level, M1000, lies at a depth of 1,000m. The first mine hoist was delivered by ABB in November 2007. It is scheduled for commissioning in 2011. In July 2010, LKAB awarded ABB a contract for the ...
The vast majority of our mining takes place several hundred metres underground, in the mines in Kiirunavaara (Kiruna) and Malmberget (Gällivare), which are the world’s two largest underground iron ore mines.
Oct 24, 2020 · The ongoing move of Malmberget might be its biggest attraction of all. When visiting you will notice areas with houses both abandoned and missing. Malmberget is about to become a ghost town, which is fascinating for some.
