With great fanfare, a historic red wooden church considered one of Sweden's most beautiful buildings began its slow move from its home in the Arctic town of Kiruna on Tuesday to allow the expansion of ...

KIRUNA, Sweden — How do you move one of Sweden’s most beloved wooden churches down the road? With a little engineering, a lot of prayer — and some Eurovision for good luck. The Kiruna Church — called ...

In a translated statement, the company said the 13 people underground had been evacuated and the mine north of the Arctic Circle had been closed. "The damage assessment is ongoing and it is estimated ...

The 113-year-old Kiruna Church is slowly being moved across the arctic town on a vast convoy of trailers travelling at around 500 metres per hour. Kiruna's entire town centre is being relocated ...

Located above the Arctic Circle, the Swedish city of Kiruna is facing a rather unique obstacle: it is slowly sinking into the ground. Thanks to a local iron mine owned by Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara AB ...

A church in Sweden is being moved three miles up the road over two days in a major operation to save it from subsidence. Kiruna Church is being moved to a new location, slowly traversing an Arctic ...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish mining company LKAB on Monday raised by a quarter its estimate of the size of deposits of rare earth oxides in the Kiruna area of northern Sweden, already Europe's ...

Its mine brought wealth to Kiruna, in Northern Sweden. Now it is killing it from beneath. Kiruna's time is up. So one man must relocate it. Since underground mining began in 1962, the people of Kiruna ...

KIRUNA, Sweden (Reuters) - Moving house is a complicated ordeal that can take thousands of pounds and many weeks to organise. Try moving half a town. The Arctic town of Kiruna, Sweden's northernmost ...

JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Sweden-based iron-ore miner LKAB has contracted automation company ABB to modernise five mine hoists at its Kiruna mine. The order includes mechanical, electrical and ...

On the western border of Kiruna, Sweden, the state-owned mining company, LKAB, has been extracting iron ore from the Kirunavaara mountains for over a decade. But the long-term mining has caused ...