For more than 250 YEARS, the northern Lapland region of Sweden has supplied the world with iron ore. Today, some of the most fruitful mines in Europe exist here, feeding the global appetite for steel, an appetite that is almost as voracious as the one for oil.rnMining for ore is not a gentle prospect. Earth is blasted away with powerful explosives and gouged open with machinery to access hidden rock deposits. This industry has rewritten the very topography of Lapland, and the transformation is most notable in the small town of Malmber-get, located in the municipality of Gallivare, just north of the Arctic Circle.
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