In the depths of Arctic winter, with temperatures plunging to minus 20 degrees Celsius and daylight reduced to a few hours of twilight, a team of miners is advancing one of Europe’s most strategically important resource projects beneath the Swedish town of Kiruna Around 900 metres underground, workers at the state-owned LKAB are tunnelling toward the Per Geijer deposit, regarded as one of the continent’s largest known concentrations of rare earth elements
Europe currently has no operating rare earth mines, despite rising demand for materials critical to electric vehicles, renewable energy systems, consumer electronics and defence technologies
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Source and Credit: theguardian.com
