A historic wooden church in northern Sweden is being moved across the town of Kiruna to make way for the expansion of the world’s largest underground iron ore mine. The two-day operation is relocating the church about 3 miles to Kiruna’s new town centre, part of a decadeslong plan to shift the entire community. Mining beneath Kiruna by the state-owned company LKAB since 1910 has destabilized the ground, causing subsidence.
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