The Sinking Town with The Most Modern Underground Mine: Kiruna, Sweden

Last Summer I went to the Arctic Circle to visit the world’s most modern underground mine in the northern Swedish town of Kiruna. Following a successful exploration by the state-owned Swedish mining company, LKAB, the newly discovered resources are to date known as one of the world’s largest remarkable deposits of rare earth oxides, current most sought-after type of oxide. It’s been ten years since I first learned the ‘Kiruna-type’ deposit in the Economic Geology course that I enrolled in 2013. Time flies. The symbiotic existence between the town and geology first existed more than 100 years ago. Outside the mine, I could see a great influence of geology and mining in Kiruna. As I strolled around the town, I realized that even the streets, for instance, Porfyrvägen (or the Porphyry Street in Swedish), Apatitvägen (named after the mineral apatite), and Magnetitvägen (named after the mineral magnetite, the host mineral of the Kiruna mine), were given to honor the enormous influence of geology. <a href="https://medium.com/@debski__/the-collapsing-town-with-the-most-modern-underground-mine-kiruna-sweden-18ca31653e2a">Click Here</a>