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, Adrianus, Martikainen, A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Luleå tekniska universitet, Geoteknologi 2022
• Subjects: Energy-efficient; Ventilation on demand (VOD); Battery electric vehicles (BEVs); Ventilation power cost; Heating power cost; Mineral and Mine Engineering; Mineral- och gruvteknik; Canada; Kiruna; Luossavaara; Northern Sweden
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-87310; https://doi.org/10.1007/s42461-021-00483-y

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 Sustainab...