Name: This is Kiruna: How to Move a City
Uploaded: 2017-01-05T02:55:12.000Z
Duration: 10 min 10 s
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This is Johanna, one of the 18,000 residents.

Kiruna is also the home of a great mine - distant but always present.

The process started in 2004 when LKAB informed-

The mine has always worked in symbiosis with Kiruna.

It was never an option to close the mine.

Is it true that Kiruna is the largest municipality in the world?

-but then two municipalities in Australia merged to create one.

We decided to go for a drive in the land of Volvo-

-as is every other store in the current city centre.

-or the store just might fall 2,000 meters down into the abyss.

-and the city has to move three kilometres east.

While being shown around the mine by LKAB-

-That's great shoes you've got there. -Thanks, man!

Iron ore is the most widely used metal in the world.

-for stadiums, cars, skyscrapers and agrimotors, like this one.

-and pays for the move of the city centre.

It will continue for about 20-30 years forward in time.

Every time a bucketful of ore is removed from the mine-

This is the purest iron ore in the world.

Kiruna was founded as a city back in the year 1900-

Nowadays LKAB is one of Sweden's biggest taxpayers-

While deposits from other mining companies may be at 30-40 percent-

It's always after twelve o'clock when they are blowing in the mine.

No way! I'm used to it. I've lived here all my life. I'm 45 years old.

Yeah. I don't mind at all. I don't hear it.

When facing one of the biggest urban transformations of our time-

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This is Kiruna: How to Move a City

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