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Malmfälten

area of Sweden known for mining industry

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ4568229 ↗
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Malmfälten (Swedish: the Ore Fields) is a major mining district in Sweden, centred on the northern towns of Kiruna and Malmberget.

Swedish state-owned mining company LKAB mines iron ore at Malmberget.

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The public source identifies “Malmfälten” as area of Sweden known for mining industry. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Malmfälten, area and Sweden.

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This entry incorporates text from “Malmfälten” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.