Many residential areas in Kiruna have already been decommissioned and demolished due to the cracks from the mine that seep under the city.
Now the turn has come to the area that was built for railway workers in the 1910s.
House after house is demolished
Five of the old SJ houses are to be moved to safe ground shortly, while many more are being demolished and ground into chips.
In areas, homeowners and tenants live in apartment buildings who can watch the spectacle from their homes.
They themselves will soon have to move as part of the so-called social transformation.
Unsentimental attitude
Björn Olosson is at his best clearing away old rubble outside his house on Tågmästaregatan where he has lived for 40 years.
He will soon be moving to a newly built house.
He has adopted an unsentimental attitude to what is going on.
- As an old LKAB member, I understand that this is inevitable.
It's a bit boring, but something new will come instead.
You meet him and some of his neighbors in the clip.