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Kiruna - New Town - Ground gets deeper?

Thanks for uploader for the nice graphic!

So If I get it right, the iron ore is until a depth of around 2,000 meters and the ~1,345 meter plan is a new one to maintain/increase production?! Will the Iron Ore gets more (larger, broader) the deeper you go? Means that there is still a lot left or? I already read 3 years ago after watching a "Nazi German Steel"-Documentary (for which Kiruna Iron Ore was vital) for the city, and the whole city need to be "replaced" because the ground is no more secure... so maybe the new city at least 20 kilometer or better 30 kilometer away from the Iron Ore mine or its area of impact under the ground :> Since I never heard of the giant coal mines that the "ground gets unsafe" after taking far over 100 million tons of coal from the large coal deposits?! Is it still economic? A very good factor are the low transport costs to Europe... compared to Iron Ore from many thousand kilometers away by Sea... Greetings Kilon22 (talk) 17:28, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

Kiruna iron ore is magnetite, instead of hematite. So its pelletizing is cheaper because it is exothermic. The transportation costs are also a advantage to supply European blast furnaces. And all the infrastructures -heavy railways tracks are very expensive- are efficient and paid. Borvan53 (talk) 21:14, 18 August 2016 (UTC)