Economic potential of battery metals and minerals in Sweden

• The potential for battery metal production in Sweden is difficult to predict with the present geological knowledge. The Swedish bedrock are known to containnumerous occurrences of lithium, cobalt, nickel, manganese, vanadium, and graphite, but a waste majority of them have not been studied in any detail recently and data to estimate their potential is therefore limited. However, known alum shales and graphite schists probably constitute world class deposits of vanadium and graphite if extracted and processed in an economically feasible and environmentally responsible manner, while the potential to find significant manganese and cobalt deposits in Sweden is probably low. These metals, as well as vanadium, could rather be extracted from the waste material of active and historic mines. The geology of parts of Sweden also suggests that significant sulphidic nickel deposits might exist, as well as lithium-pegmatites similar to those in the same crustal domain in Finland.

Ämnesord

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap -- Geologi (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences -- Geology (hsv//eng)

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Malmgeologi

Ore Geology

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