Excerpts from Why battery miners are swarming Europe’s biggest rock collection. Bloomberg News ”(Bloomberg) — 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.” ”For more than a century, the Nordic nation has accumulated thousands of ore samples—. They’re stored at the Geological Survey of Sweden’s drill core archive, where visitors pay 1,000 kronor ($110) a 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’s got carmakers in a tizzy.”
“If you’re in mineral exploration, this is really the only place to be,” said Amanda Scott, a geologist who helps mining companies find the best spots for minerals like cobalt, lithium and vanadium.” http://www.mining.com/web/battery-miners-swarming-europes-biggest-rock-collection
Swedish drill core collection and scanning
The Geological Survey of Sweden´s, SGU´s, National Borrowing Archives in Malå is a collection of more than 3 million meters of drill cores from more than 17 000 drill holes from all over Sweden. New drillcores are being continuously added. Many of the drill cores have core logs.