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Extract from the Gllivare Travel Guides:
GLLIVARE
is one of Europe's most important sources of iron ore, while Europe's largest open-cast copper mine sears the landscape 20km to the south, its gargantuan bucket-shovels and dump trucks just dots 250m down. The tourist office ferries trips to the
iron ore mines
(mid-June to Aug Mon-Fri 9.30am & 1.30pm; 160kr) and
copper mine
(June-Aug Mon-Fri 2pm; 160kr). Astounding statistics - 300 tonnes of high explosives are used for each blast - pepper the tour, which also takes in
Kkstan
, a rebuilt shantytown on the site of the original iron ore mine; and you stop long enough to sampl...
read the whole Gllivare Travel Guides...
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