Development of Strategies to Reduce Ventilation and Heating Costs in a Swedish Sublevel Caving Mine—a Unique Case of LKAB’s Konsuln Mine

• Published in: Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration
• Main Authors: Gyamfi, S., Halim, A., Martikainen, A.
• Other Authors: Lulea University of Technology
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2021
• Subjects: Materials Chemistry; Metals and Alloys; Mechanical Engineering; Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology; General Chemistry; Control and Systems Engineering; Canada; Kiruna; Luossavaara; Northern Sweden
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42461-021-00483-y; https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s42461-021-00483-y.pdf; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42461-021-00483-y/fulltext.html

Abstract This paper outlines a unique case of the development of strategies to reduce ventilation and heating costs in Konsuln iron ore mine in northern Sweden. The mine, located just south of Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara Aktiebolag’s Kiruna iron ore mine, was developed as a test mine 2018–2020 for the...