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Svappavaara
Sign in to saveSvappavaara (Meänkieli: Vaskivuori; ) is a locality situated in Kiruna Municipality, Norrbotten County, Sweden with 392 inhabitants in 2023. (1) It is a mining village. Mining was started around 1650. Large scale iron mining started in 1965. The mine was closed in 1983, but enrichment of iron ore from the mine at Kiruna is still going on. The mine is owned by LKAB, and was reopened in 2023, for mineral research purposes.
Key facts
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- Svappavaara
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- Svappavaara 1965a.jpg
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- One of the original buildings at Svappavaara, designed by Ralph Erskine, which forms a long wind break.
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- Sweden Norrbotten#Sweden
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- bottom
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- Country
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- Sweden
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- Municipality
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- Kiruna Municipality
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- County
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- Norrbotten County
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- Province
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- Lapland
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 0.92
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 31 December 2010
- Settlement.population_total
- 417
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- 456
- Settlement.timezone
- CET
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Svappavaara (Meänkieli: Vaskivuori; ) is a locality situated in Kiruna Municipality, Norrbotten County, Sweden with 392 inhabitants in 2023. (1) It is a mining village. Mining was started around 1650. Large scale iron mining started in 1965. The mine was closed in 1983, but enrichment of iron ore from the mine at Kiruna is still going on. The mine is owned by LKAB, and was reopened in 2023, for mineral research purposes.
The designers of Fermont, Quebec in northern Canada were inspired by Svappavaara and similar Swedish towns with regard to the windbreak building. In 2010, a portion of Ralph Erskine's windbreak building, was demolished.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Svappavaara” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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