Brick by Brick, Small Swedish Town Relocates

For the last 115 years, a small town in Sweden’s northern Arctic region and the world’s largest underground iron ore mine have depended on one another. The mine provides the town with an economy and employment, and the town provides workers. Town and mine are so interconnected they even have the same name: Kiruna. But now the mine is threatening the town, creating giant fissures capable of swallowing buildings whole.