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OF the excursions in connection with the last meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute in Sweden, none was of greater interest than the visit to the vast mountains of iron ore at Kiirunavaara and Luossavaara within the Arctic Circle. The party of members invited by the owners of the mines was necessarily limited, and the journey was long and arduous. After travelling 820 miles by railway, the party proceeded in carriages for forty miles over a loose shingle road, then for forty miles more up the Kalix river in boats poled against the stream, and lastly for ten miles on foot. The visit to the mines was made under the guidance of Mr. H. Lundbohm, of the Geological Survey of Sweden, who contributed to the meeting an interesting paper describing the deposits. From this the following details are derived:—
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The Iron Ore Deposits of Northern Sweden. Nature 59, 211–212 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/059211b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/059211b0