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As the state-owned mining company drills deeper in northern Sweden, the earth underneath a small town is giving way. Instead of halting extraction, the town plans to move.
People walk through the commercial part of the town center earlier this month in Kiruna, Sweden. The town is being moved by LKAB, the local iron ore mining company, because the mine's underground tunnels are endangering most of the buildings in town. The entire town center will be razed when the town moves.
Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff