"The ore in my heart"

So it sounded 30-40 years ago, now it is a pit that dominates and destroys. It eats up the middle of Malmberget with at most more than 10,000 inhabitants.

Soon there is nothing left.

Well, other than the stranded. Continued accommodation in apartments centrally; and those on the eastern side, parts of the residential area Kilen that remain and in the houses on Malmsta, built in the fifties for LKAB's employees.

Those on the east side have to go almost five miles to Gällivare to get any service. They cannot go directly to the center of Malmberg, what is left; a pit a hundred meters deep and kilometers in circumference prevents them .

There is no community service for thousands who still live. Nothing, not a grocery store, taste what you in the urban areas.

And it takes years before they get new housing. The "favored", no ore miner really wants to move, have got new houses up on the low mountain Dundret, south of Gällivare.

Several have been given priority over the apartments that are being built and built on the mountain side. But to become a gelsivarebo ... there was no thought of it before for an ore miner - now it is a necessity.

Opposite to a gildivarebo, rivalry has always existed but now one must agree. Either the Malmberget dies or the mine, then nothing is left within a few years.

It is LKAB that is the lifeblood and has always been for a hundred years for the triangular communities Malmberget, Gällivare and the jumping resort, Jan Boklöv's childhood home, he with the V-style, Koskullskulle.

There, several houses from Malmberget and then ore miners were moved in a gigantic operation. The church is also going to "The Hill", the one that was relocated in 1974 to avoid the breeding area and the pit that expanded the deeper you got into the wrestling. Now there is no place for the church in the Malmberget breeding area.

I grew up an ore miner, not an ore miner, although exported because of my profession as a journalist. But I managed to work seven years at the front of the mine.

The first time I came down I was terrified . The old men with urnicas that were seen waiting for the mining buses took care of me. They knew their mine, I got a tremendous respect for these people, who worked in the world's largest wheeled mine with 40 miles of driveway under the Malmberget.

The sports hall, first in Norrbotten with bowling alley in the early sixties, the ice hall, built on a voluntary road 1965, the swimming hall, built in 1968, the high school Welcome school with the ski gym, built in 1968, the Focushuset, twelve floors, oboy, a "skyscraper" in Malmberget 1962.

Who then thought it would be like this ... Everything should now be demolished everything should be removed.

Malmberget disappears.

The geniuses from Malmberget, Berto Marklund, sculptor, Bo Nilsson, composer, Björn Erik Höijer, author, Stig Järrels birthplace, comedian Roffe Bengtsson were also born ore miners.

Who remembers when Malmberget is gone?

No one seems to care about Sweden.

All focus on the relocation of Kiruna city center, which in comparison with how Malmberget is affected is a fourth in world space.

But nothing can make the mine have to live and the residents of Gällivare municipality. The lifeblood is LKAB's that has guided the social transformation and life throughout the years. "LKå" in the people's mouth.

We can comfort ourselves with the motto: “There are many holes in Sweden - but only one pit; MALMBERGET.