A history of LKAB - LKAB
According to legend, the history of iron ore and LKAB started with a squirrel hunt outside the village Masugnsbyn, 89 km southeast of Svappavaara. The year was 1642 when farmer Lasun Lassi (Lars Larsson in modern Swedish) found a peculiar piece of black rock there. He brought the stone to merchants in Torneå in Finland, which was then a part ...