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Simon Holmqvist. Boliden AB stylized as New Boliden is a Swedish multinational metals, mining, and smelting company headquartered in Stockholm. The company produces zinc , copper , lead , nickel , silver , and gold , with operations in Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Ireland. Boliden is linked to a major environmental disaster in Spain [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and is also accused of threatening human rights defenders following the disposal of toxic waste in Chile.
In , in a major deal, Boliden acquired Outokumpu 's mining and smelting assets within zinc and copper. It was once Europe's largest and richest gold mine, but has since been defunct. In August , Boliden joined up with several of the world's other major mining companies and Komatsu to advance zero-emission mining. In August , Boliden ranked second among mining companies in Bloomberg Intelligence's low-carbon ranking.
Business Area Mines conducts exploration, mining and milling operations in Sweden, Finland, and Ireland. Its main products are zinc and copper concentrate, with some lead, gold and silver content. The goods produced are sold both to the Group's own smelters and to external customers. Boliden owns and operates Europe's biggest zinc mine at Tara in Ireland.
Tara became part of Boliden in early , but production began there in , since when over 60 million tonnes of ore have been mined. Boliden also owns Garpenberg, which is Sweden's oldest mine still in operation. Mining at Garpenberg, or extracting metals from the ground, began as early as bc. Boliden also owns and operates the Aitik open pit mine, which is one of Europe's biggest copper mines.
Metal grades at Aitik are low, but this is compensated for by high productivity levels and efficient milling processes that also exploit the ore's gold and silver content. An expansion project that will double Aitik's ore production to 36 million tonnes per annum by began in and will be completed in Business Area Smelters refines both metal concentrate and secondary materials to produce base and precious metals at smelters in Sweden, Finland and Norway.
The main metals are zinc and copper but the production of lead, gold and silver also makes a substantial contribution to the Business Area's revenues. Other products include sulphuric acid and aluminium fluoride.
Boliden owns and operates two zinc and two copper smelters and one lead smelter. The Kokkola zinc smelter in Finland is the second largest in Europe and the fifth largest in the world, and mainly produces an alloy used in the galvanising of thin sheet metal. The Odda zinc smelter, which produces zinc for the steel industry and aluminium fluoride for Norway's aluminium industry, is located on the west coast of Norway.
The Rönnskär copper smelter is located in the Swedish town of Skelleftehamn and its main products are copper, zinc clinker, lead and precious metals.
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The smelter, which produces sulphuric acid as a by-product of its operations, also produces metals from electronic scrap and other secondary materials. The Harjavalta copper smelter, located on the west coast of Finland, produces copper cathodes that are mainly sold to manufacturers of semi-finished goods. Other important products include gold, silver and sulphuric acid.
The Bergsöe lead smelter outside Landskrona in southern Sweden extracts lead from scrap car batteries.
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Bergsöe is one of Europe's four biggest players in the lead recycling industry. Approximately 60 per cent of the plant's lead production is sold to the European battery industry, with the remainder used in the manufacture of roofing sheet. On 10 December , a sensational ore deposit was discovered at Fågelmyran, just over 30 km northwest of Skellefteå. Test drilling revealed what was then Europe's richest ore.
The first Boliden ore was extracted in the spring of at what would become the Boliden mine — a mine that would prove, over the course of several decades, to be Europe's biggest and richest gold mine. The deposit also included copper and large amounts of silver. The town of Boliden quickly grew up around the mine. The leading light in the development of the Boliden company was Oscar Falkman — , who was the driving force behind the exploration work that began in the second decade of the 20th century, and which was accelerated due to the metal shortage that arose in the wake of World War I.
Falkman continued in the role of Boliden's President until Boliden AB was also part of the financier Ivar Kreuger's business empire until The Rönnskär smelter was built to process the Boliden ore, and commenced smelting operations in The world's longest ore tramway, between Boliden's mine in Kristineberg and Boliden became operational in The ore tramway was 96 km long and by the time it was shut down, 44 years later, it had transported 12 million tonnes of concentrate.
Operations started at the Aitik mine, outside Gällivare, in This open pit mine would develop, over the years, into one of Europe's biggest copper mines. During its first year of operations, it produced approximately 9, tonnes of copper, kg of gold and 7 tonnes of silver.