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| | Mining Technology - Boliden Silver Mine - Garpenberg - Sweden |
 | | Located near Hedemora, in the historic Bergslagen mining district of central Sweden, the two mines and common concentrator at Garpenberg comprise the smallest of Boliden’s mining areas. |
 | | The deposits of the Bergslagen district are believed to date from the middle precambrian but may have been re-mobilised later. |
 | | Contained metal outputs were 54,914t of Zn, 550t of Cu, 19,146t of Pb, 217kg of Au and 105,533kg of Ag, as compared with 2003's 44,314t of zinc, 16,002t of lead, 531t of copper, 123,278kg of silver and 216kg of gold. |
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