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SVEA LOCKED: Final shutdown ceremony 'marks the closure of over a hundred years of mining' by Store Norske
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Mountain peak Tre Kroner (Three crowns) Svea, Dana and Nora (for Sweden, Denmark and Norway), Kronebreen, Kongsfjorden, Spitsbergen archipelago, Svalbard, Norway, Europe Stock Photo | Adobe Stock
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The (much) higher price of failure: Cost of dismantling Store Norske's main mines doubles to 1.5B kroner
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