Roger Holmberg

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Peru vs Sweden
Peru ~30 million people 3 times Swedish area Sweden ~9,5 million people

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Mines in production
PRODUCTION Iron ore Sulphide ore Gold ore

Swedish share of total production in EU 2005

Metal Iron Silver Lead Copper Zinc Gold Share % 89.4 17.2 36.3 12 26.9 36.9 Placement 1st 2nd after Poland 2nd after Ireland 3rd after Poland and Portugal 2nd after Ireland 1st

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LKAB
Luossavaara-Kirunavaara AB (LKAB) is an international

high-tech minerals group, one of the worlds leading producers of upgraded iron ore products for the steel industry and a growing supplier of industrial minerals products to other sectors. Most of the iron ore products are sold to European steelworks. Other important markets are North Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Industrial minerals are sold mainly in Europe but also to growing markets in Asia and the USA. LKAB has around 3,700 employees, of which 600 outside Sweden.
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LKAB Kirunavaara
27 Mton crude ore per year

4 km long orebody in Kiruna, average width 80 m. 2 km deep

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LKAB Malmberget
16 Mton crude ore per year

20 ore bodies, ~10 are mined

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LKAB
The finished products are

LKAB

transported from the ore processing plants to customers by rail and by ship via the shipping ports at Narvik and Lule.

LKAB

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LKAB
LKAB produced 25.3 Mt of iron

ore products in 2010. 87 % is pellets (66% Iron) 23% is Fines Second- largest pellet manufacturer after Vale, Brazil Will increase production initially to 37 Mt. 2015 Utilises large scale sublevel stoping. Automatic and remotely controlled loading and transport. 30 % of all machinery are supervised and controlled from a surface office.

LKAB

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LKAB Production 2010

Boliden Mineral

In 2010 Boliden produced 30.4 Mt of ore in Swedish mining operations.

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Boliden Aitik Mine

The open pit mine Aitik, located

outside Gllivare in northern Sweden, is one of the largest producers of copper in Europe.
Aitik is a low-grade copper mine,

which means that the ore is mined on a large scale. In 2010 approximately 28 million tonnes of ore were mined. 67,000 ton Cu and 2,200 kg gold
In operation since 1968.

Aitik video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGI0dN012Qk&fea

ture=player_embedded http://www.boliden.com/www/en/BolidenEn.nsf/C35 67DE84AFAA493C1256F5D003B566E/2CC662FB00F2A B82C125778B00493759?OpenDocument http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGI0dN012Qk

Boliden Area
The Boliden Area is located in the 2010 1.44 Mton ore mined 86,000 ton Zc produced

mineral rich Skellefte field where some 30 mines have been in operation since the 1920s. Zn, Cu, Pb, Ag and Au Mines today are;
Kristineberg, Renstrm,

Maurliden and Maurliden stra

Boliden Garpenberg Mine

The Garpenberg Mine is the oldest mine in operation in Sweden. Mined as early as in the 13th century. One of the owners of the mines was even Gustav Vasa, the first king of the Vasa

Dynasty. Boliden purchased the Garpenberg Mine from AB Zinkgruvor in 1957. Operations at the Garpenberg Norra mine started in 1972.

Garpenberg mining method

At the Garpenberg area a sulphide polymetallic ore is mined. Its main

constituents are zinc and silver, but the ore contains also lead, copper and gold. Mining method has been Cut and Fill but is changing over to panel stoping with paste fill. Six metres slices are mined from stopes 50-300m long and up to 15m wide. The lowermost cut is filled with pure sand and later on with waste rock and sand; thereafter either plain or cemented tailings pumped from the surface are used and the water is drained off. The coarse fraction of the mill tailings is used for backfill in the mines, while the fines are deposited in an adjacent tailing pond.

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Garpenberg
More than 1.4 million tonnes of ore are processed at the concentrator

each year. 2010 was 86,000 ton Cu Zn (%) 7,28 Cu (%) 0,07 Pb (%) 2,80 Ag (g/ton) 139 Au (g/ton) 0,25

An expansion is underway to double production.

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Garpenberg- Lappberget
Between the two active mines a large

deposit, called Lappberget, was discovered year 2001, with high grades of zinc, silver and lead, extending the area's operating life. This orebody is of a greater thickness then the other mines will allow for a larger scale mining method, i.e. panel stoping with paste fill. A connecting drift between the mines at 800-900 m level was completed in spring 2004 and production at Lappberget commenced on a wider scale. The Garpenberg area has around 275 employees.

Garpenberg Norra Lappberget

850Z

Garpenberg Mine

Wireless Central Blasting System

Garpenberg previously utilised a simple, but not the safest, method for

initiation of the rounds. In the mines the NONEL-system is used and after charging the coupled rounds they earlier had the blasting crew driving around to the various blasting sites. At the end of each shift, i.e. at 16.00 and at 04.00 the crew ignited the rounds with cap and fuse. The new shifts started at 18.00 and 06.00, which gave a time gap of 2 hours to shoot the rounds and ventilate the blast fumes. The old fashion cap and fuse was not considered safe and they installed a central blasting system.

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Safer blasting procedures

Adjacent to the shaft at the 800 m

level a control room for the central blasting system was established. Cap and fuse method for initiation of Nonel rounds was abandoned Avoiding people to enter the mine during the initiation sequences is a safer approach then previously used method. A remote controlled central blasting system like DynoRem Mine was convenient to use and the safety has been increased in the mine.

Lundin Mining - Zinkgruvan

Zinkgruvan Mining AB produced in 2010 ~1 Mton of

ore. Metal production;

72 206 ton Zinc 36 636 ton Lead

540 ton Copper

56 ton Silver

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Lundin Mining - Zinkgruvan

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Gold Ore Resources Ltd. Bjrkdalsgruvan

2010 1.1 Mton ore , surface and underground 1,300 kg Gold

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Gold line
Svartliden Guld AB (Dragon Mining NL) and Lapland Goldminers have started production.

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Dragon Mining Sweden AB Svartliden

2010 300 000 ton ore in open pit produced ~1.250 kg Gold

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Lappland Goldminers
Pahtavaara 2010

224 kg Au Ersmarksberget Production start 2012 Fbodliden Feasibility study

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Prospecting costs - Sweden

Million US$ 100

50

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Exploration
The exploration is focused on base metals . The

priorities are the following ;

1: 60% - Zn, Cu, Pb and Ni 2: 20% - Fe and energy minerals 3: -molybdenum, tungsten, vanadium, tellurium,

lithium

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Why prospecting in Sweden?

Political and economic stability Excellent ore potential

Proven mineral resources of world class

High class data bases Good infrastructure

Beneficial (simple) mineral laws

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LTI Swedish Mining Industry

LTI per million work hour

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Ballast production
100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 -94 -95 -96 -97 -98 -99 -00 -01 -02 -03

2008 101,4 Mton

Mton

Crushed stones Others + Morain Natural gravel

2008 18.8 Mton Environmental Goal 2010 12 Mton

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Explosives deliveries 50 40
Kton

30 20 10 0
-9 0 -9 2 -9 4 -9 6 -9 8 -0 0 -0 2 -0 4

ANFO Bulk emulsion Cartridge

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kton
35 30 25

Bulk emulsion

Kton

20 15 10 5 0 -97 -98 -99 -00 -01 -02 -03 -04

M ines Others

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Mines Others

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kton

Cartridges

Mines Others

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M pcs

Non-electric detonators

Mines Others

M pcs

Electric detonators

Mines Others

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