Beowulf Mining
| Beowulf Mining plc | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Public limited company |
| ISIN | SE0002457796 |
| Seat | Ely , United Kingdom |
| Branch | exploration |
| Website | www.beowulfmining.net |
Beowulf Mining is a British-Swedish geo-exploration company.
Beowulf searches for gold, silver, uranium and iron ores in northern Sweden. The company is listed on the AIM Market in London and on the Torget share in Stockholm .
The drilling programs Kallak South and Kallak North near Kallak in northern Sweden caused a lot of discussion . The company Jokkmokk Iron Mines AB ( "JIMAB") commissioned the company for exploratory drilling, which started in December 2012 found. The adjacent seed community opposed the drilling. At the end of June 2013, nature conservation activists u. a. von Fältbiologerna the company's devices. An 800 hectare open pit mine is planned, from which 600 million tons of iron ore will be extracted. The planned mining area is only a few kilometers south of Laponia , an area that UNESCO awarded the status of World Natural Heritage and World Cultural Heritage in the 1960s .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map of the Kallak exploration area
- ↑ http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=98&artikel=5579611
- ↑ taz article from August 27, 2013 about planned iron ore open-cast mining in Lapland
