Grängesberg Fe project, central Sweden     Sidan på svenska

Infrastructure
On closure, all the mine’s facilities were transferred into community ownership. Offices and workshops are in generally excellent state of repair and to a large extent available for use should the mine be re-opened.

The marshalling yard, where loaded trains were assembled for dispatch to the port of Oxelösund, is still intact although little used.

Considerable infrastructure underground exist, although now waterfilled. Several shafts on the footwall side of the open pit are available, three of them with headframes still intact. An internal ramp system is continuous throughout the mine below the 410mL, connecting all extraction levels.

A decision was made in 1966 to sink new shafts, feeding a new treatment plant, at the southern extremity of the orebody. Four Alimak raises were developed from the 515mL to surface and one excavated to a final, elliptical size of some 8m x 4m. However in 1972, all shaft development within the project was stopped, it being decided the Central Shaft was not at risk. All equipment was subsequently removed, and the shafts were capped. The sinter plant and associated substantial power facility were however completed and is still in place, now being used for other industrial purposes.