Kiruna

Sweden · Underground

Opened: 1898
Region: Norrbotten
Status: Active
Country: Sweden
Type: Underground
Latitude: 67.85
Longitude: 20.2

Notes

The largest underground iron mine, a magnetite slab 4 km long dipping under the town — which is now being moved 3 km east because the ground above the workings is subsiding.

Commodities

Iron

Referenced by

element

Iron

Open on the Mines & Extraction shelf — the interactive card, the filters, and everything alongside it.

From the Mines database in Notion, last edited 2026-08-16. This page is the row, rendered by the build; nothing on it is written by hand.