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Didn't we have this headline for Sweden like a year ago? Same deposit?

piva00 2y ago
Completely different, the Norwegian discovery is in the southeast of Norway while the Swedish discovery is in Kiruna, north of the Arctic circle.
- fifilura 2y ago
  The location in Sweden is not particularly bad. The logistics to shipping is very well established through the all season harbor Narvik (in Norway) because of the iron ore mines. The culprit is the Sami people that just happened to live there before the more powerful swedish government annexed it. Who is right? The people who were here first herding reindeer or the government? Not a trivial question to answer if you take a step back.
  - peroo 2y ago
    If you're a cynic, announcing that you've "discovered" a large of amount of REE in your iron ore tailings - and having the chief executive of the EU declare it strategically important - seems like a very good way of making sure you can continue mining iron ore for the forseeable future.
  - patall 2y ago
    > The logistics to shipping is very well established through the all season harbor Narvik (in Norway) because of the iron ore mines. Unless a train derails. Once. Or twice. Or, out of a sudden, it become too warm in May. Then some minor mines start to close. (Just telling it as it is, lol. Who knows what happens next)
    - fifilura 2y ago
      Yeah maintenance has been a major problem lately. But this route has delivered iron ore reliably for probaly 100 years now. The iron ore from Sweden was (somewhat paradoxically) the main reason Hitler invaded Norway.
dncornholio 2y ago
From the article: > The discovery eclipses a massive rare earths deposit found last year in neighboring Sweden.
dagw 2y ago
Yea, they found one in Sweden last year, but this one is much bigger. Also two entirely different deposits. The one in Sweden is right at its northern border, and this one is in the southern part of Norway.
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Completely different, the Norwegian discovery is in the southeast of Norway while the Swedish discovery is in Kiruna, north of the Arctic circle.

fifilura 2y ago
The location in Sweden is not particularly bad. The logistics to shipping is very well established through the all season harbor Narvik (in Norway) because of the iron ore mines. The culprit is the Sami people that just happened to live there before the more powerful swedish government annexed it. Who is right? The people who were here first herding reindeer or the government? Not a trivial question to answer if you take a step back.
- peroo 2y ago
  If you're a cynic, announcing that you've "discovered" a large of amount of REE in your iron ore tailings - and having the chief executive of the EU declare it strategically important - seems like a very good way of making sure you can continue mining iron ore for the forseeable future.
- patall 2y ago
  > The logistics to shipping is very well established through the all season harbor Narvik (in Norway) because of the iron ore mines. Unless a train derails. Once. Or twice. Or, out of a sudden, it become too warm in May. Then some minor mines start to close. (Just telling it as it is, lol. Who knows what happens next)
  - fifilura 2y ago
    Yeah maintenance has been a major problem lately. But this route has delivered iron ore reliably for probaly 100 years now. The iron ore from Sweden was (somewhat paradoxically) the main reason Hitler invaded Norway.

dncornholio 2y ago

From the article: > The discovery eclipses a massive rare earths deposit found last year in neighboring Sweden.

dagw 2y ago

Yea, they found one in Sweden last year, but this one is much bigger. Also two entirely different deposits. The one in Sweden is right at its northern border, and this one is in the southern part of Norway.

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