Why battery miners are swarming Europe’s biggest rock collection
Being home to Europe’s biggest rock collection has finally come in handy for Sweden amid the global race for the scarce metals that power electric cars.
by bloomberg news, Niclas Rolander
For more than a century, the Nordic nation has accumulated thousands of ore samples—so many that if they were laid end to end, they would stretch from Minneapolis to Mexico and beyond. They are stored at the Geological Survey of Sweden’s drill core archive, where visitors pay SEK 1,000 kronor per day to examine rocks stashed in rows and rows of wooden crates in hopes of spotting rich deposits of minerals like cobalt, the bluish-grey mineral that has got carmakers in a tizzy.
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