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    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 drill
    cores are being continuously added. Many of the drill cores have core logs.

    https://www.sgu.se/en/mineral-resou...for-mineral-exploration/drill-core-collection

    https://www.sgu.se/en/mineral-resou...ll-core-collection/drill-core-scanning-at-sgu

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