The loader at LKAB
Weser Stahl is almost fully loaded and ready to set the course out Vestfjorden. The orange and blue machine in the background is the loader weighing 4,600 metric tonns. Below the tip of the loader you can see the black stream of iron ore pelets which has come all the way from deep down in the iron ore mines up in the Swedish mountains by train down to the all-year-round ice-free harbor of Narvik. That black stream of iron ore pellets being dumped deep into the cargo bays of the carrier is being dumped at a rate of 1-2 metric tonns per second.
Iron ore being dumped into the cargo bay of Weser Stahl today at a rate of 1-2 metric tonns per second
Erosion – a country is moving Westerly
The northern part of Jutland is at the mercy of the eroding forces from both wind and seas. The lanscape has changed radically the pas few hundred years – and continues to do so, as these pictures will show you. There isn’t much resistance in compacted sand…
A piece of driftwood worn and torn by the relentless tumbling of the North Sea and the sand - HDR-photo
Eroding sandbanks by the sea
A piece of ancient peat (rich in carbon) revealed as the sand around it erodes
Frontside and backside of erosion - grass klinging on to the moving sand
Not much resistance in these sand barrs against the wrath of the Northern Sea
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