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{{Short description|Mountain in Norrbotten, Sweden}}
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| name = Kiirunavaara
| photo = Kirunavaara.jpg
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| elevation_m = 733
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| location = [[Kiruna]], [[Sweden]]
| coordinates = {{coord|67|49|37|N|20|11|05|E|type:mountain_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
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'''Kiirunavaara''' ([[Northern Sami]]: ''Gironvárri'', [[Meänkieli dialects|Meänkieli]]: ''Kierunavaara'') is a mountain situated in [[Kiruna Municipality]] in [[Norrbotten County]], [[Sweden]]. It contains one of the largest and richest bodies of [[iron ore]] in the world.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.mindat.org/loc-10589.html
|title= Kiirunavaara Mine |publisher = mindat.org |accessdate=December 1, 2018}}</ref>

==History==
The presence of iron in the area was known by the mid-17th century, but at this time communication lines to this northerly region were quite insufficient to permit any major exploitation. Only with the construction of the [[Iron Ore Line]] railway at the end of the 19th century, which connected the [[Port of Narvik|ports of Narvik]] on the Norwegian Sea and [[Luleå]] on the Baltic Sea, did commercial mining become a realistic proposition. The Swedish mining company [[LKAB]] (''Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara Aktiebolag'') has been mining the mountain since the beginning of the 20th century.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lkab.com/en/About-us/The-history |title=The history - LKAB |accessdate=2013-12-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124234024/http://www.lkab.com/en/About-us/The-history/ |archive-date=2013-01-24 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://rail.cc/en/iron-ore-line|title= The Iron Ore Line |publisher = rail.cc|accessdate=December 1, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.lkab.com/en/about-lkab/lkab-in-brief/|title= LKAB in brief|publisher =Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara AB
|accessdate=December 1, 2018}}</ref>

The mining area around [[Kiruna]] and [[Malmberget mine|Malmberget]], together with the iron port and steelworks at [[Luleå]], made [[Norrbotten County]] one of the first, and most prominent, regions of [[heavy industry]] in Sweden. The wider region has remained at the forefront of mining and steel smelting and alloying technology.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.mining-technology.com/projects/kiruna/|title= Kiruna Iron Ore Mine|publisher = mining-technology.com
|accessdate=December 1, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.mining-technology.com/projects/malmberget/|title= Malmberget Iron Ore Mine, Sweden|publisher = mining-technology.com |accessdate=December 1, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.portlulea.com/60/in-english.html|title=Port of Luleå|publisher=portlulea.com|accessdate=December 1, 2018|archive-date=November 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181104024605/http://www.portlulea.com/60/in-english.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

{{Panorama
|image = File:Kirunavaara panorama.jpg
|height = 300
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==See also==
* [[Luossavaara]]
* [[Kiruna Mine]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

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[[Category:Kiruna]]
[[Category:Underground mines in Sweden]]
[[Category:Mountains of Norrbotten County]]

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