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STOCKHOLM, July 3 (Reuters) - Eight workers were rescued on Thursday after spending hours trapped in an underground safety chamber when fire broke out in an iron ore mine in northern Sweden.

Bjorn Koorem, a mining manager at Swedish state mining firm LKAB, said the eight men were in good health after firefighters brought them out from a chamber 1,250 metres (4,100 feet) underground.

"They were hungry when they came up but they were all right," LKAB spokeswoman Kajsa Lindmark said.

The workers had been building a new transport facility when a fire broke out in the mine.

Mining operations were shut down and Lindmark could not say when operations were due to resume. (Editing by Diana Abdallah)

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