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	American Metal Market: Boliden applies int'l strategy: spins web of autonomous business units - part 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Boliden Contech, a wholly owned subsidiary of the WP-System consulting and contracting company, the sixth company in the international group, is responsible for marketing of technology, as well as for international consulting and contracting activities.
		Boliden has managed to cope with low copper prices because of the gold and silver byproducts and, taking the total value of its reserves, is making money.
		Dahlfors observed that Boliden is buying concentrates for its Swedish smelters, while having a responsibility for its part of the supply to the Presussag-Boliden Blei lead smelter in West Germany, in which it holds a 50 percent stake, and for zinc concentrates to Norzink in Odd, Norway, also a 50 percent holding.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3MKT/is_v92/ai_3494172 (1461 words)

	PM Bolidens avfall
		Boliden hides behind the fact that laws that would have forbidden them to dump their poisonous waste had not yet been passed at the time.
		Boliden's environmental policy states, among other things, that "Protection of the environment will be based on the commitment of employees at all levels, and on clearly communicated demands made on suppliers and contractors." Also; "Boliden regards the restoration of industrial sites as a priority task."
		Boliden, meanwhile, has not paid any fines, not even the medical bills for the examination of the ill children.
	hem.passagen.se /mgoldmann/hcbolidenpm.htm (3018 words)

	Stockwatch > News > News Item
		Boliden Ltd. is suing Liberty Mutual Insurance Company for damages in the amount of $3.5-million for breach of a policy of insurance and for $500,000 in punitive damages.
		Boliden's filing says its insurance policy with Liberty "provides that, if a claim is made against both Boliden and the Directors and Officers, 80% of any combined defence costs shall be allocated to and deemed to be 'covered loss' and therefore be reimbursable.
		Boliden's notice of action says: "Liberty has wrongfully, repeatedly and without justification refused to to compensate Boliden for the covered losses paid by Boliden from time to time or to pay any defence costs incurred by the Directors and Officers.
	www.stockwatch.com /swnet/newsit/newsit_newsit.aspx?bid=B-427671-C:BLS&symbol=BLS&news_region=C (519 words)

	celex-txt - 32003M3284 - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Boliden is an international mining and metals group, which mines and smelts copper, zinc, lead, gold and silver.
		Boliden is quoted on the Stockholm Stock Exchange in Sweden and the Toronto Stock Exchange in Canada.
		Boliden will transfer its brass and copper business, including the development, marketing, sale and delivery of brass products and copper tubes, as well as its technology business, including the provision of technology services to the mining and metallurgical industry, to Outokumpu.
	europa.eu.int /smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexplus!prod!CELEXnumdoc&lg=en&numdoc=32003M3284 (5775 words)

	Mining Technology - Boliden Mining Company Gold Mines - Boliden Area Operations - Sweden
		Although this mine shut in 1967, the concentrator has continued to treat ores from other Boliden mines in the area (40 over the years), and to supply the Ronnskär smelter which Boliden opened at Skelleftehamn on the Baltic coast in 1930.
		Since January 2004, when Boliden AB and Outokumpu Oy consolidated their zinc and copper mining and smelting interests, the operations have been owned by "new" Boliden, in which Outokumpu holds a 49% stake but which is headquartered in Stockholm.
		Boliden is now the world's fourth largest zinc-mining company as well as a leading metals-smelting firm.
	www.mining-technology.com /projects/boliden (746 words)

	Boliden Mineral AB on MiningLife
		New Boliden is one of the leading mining and smelting companies in the world with operations in Sweden, Finland, Norway and Ireland.
		Boliden's main products are copper, zinc, lead, gold and silver.
		The number of employees is approximately 4 500 and the turnover amounts to approximately EUR 2 billion annually.
	mininglife.com /operations/companydetail.asp?Company=Boliden+Mineral+AB (50 words)

	Boliden Bergsöe AB - English version - Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Boliden Bergsöe AB was formerly known as Paul Bergsöe and Son, a Danish company that began business in 1902 recycling tin from tin cans.
		Boliden Bergsöe AB is a recycling company that manufactures lead and tin materials from scrapped goods.
		Boliden Bergsöe AB is the only secondary smelting plant for lead accumulators in the Nordic area.
	www.bolidenbergsoe.se /eng/foretag.htm (242 words)

	Boliden: Cost-reduction and efficiency program to improve results by SEK 300 million per year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Boliden is already running successful programs to reduce costs and raise efficiency at the Myra Falls mine in Canada and in the Business Area Fabrication.
		Boliden is an international mining and metal-producing company that mines, processes and markets copper, zinc, lead, gold and silver.
		The Boliden share is quoted on the Stockholm Stock Exchange in Sweden as well as on the Toronto Stock Exchange in Canada.
	www2.cdn-news.com /newsnet/2003/04/08/0408017n.html (306 words)

	Mining Technology - Boliden Lead Mine - Laisvall - Sweden
		Governmental imperatives having changed over the years, Boliden was not allowed to extend the mining area by diverting river flows and in 1997 gained government approval for a long-term decommissioning plan.
		The relatively simple sulphide ores allowed Boliden to optimise the concentrator for lead recovery, at the same time achieving excellent silver and good zinc recoveries.
		In 1997, the mining rate at Laisvall was raised to 1.9Mt/y and, in 1999, the concentrator milled 1.95Mt yielding 94,000t of lead and 24,000t of zinc concentrate.
	www.mining-technology.com /projects/laisvall/index.html (691 words)

	News reports on tailings spills
		Swedish mining and metals group Boliden said yesterday an appeals court in Spain had upheld a lower court decision clearing it of any crime in connection with an ecological disaster at its Los Frailes mine.
		Boliden's share jumped on the news, closing 4.7 percent up at 2.23 crowns, having hit a three-month high of 2.24 crowns.
		In the statement, Boliden's Chief Executive Jan Johansson said the new ruling paved the way for Boliden to claim compensation from those who built the dam.
	www.minesandcommunities.org /Action/press20.htm (549 words)

	INFO-MINE - SILVER EAGLE RESOURCES INC. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Boliden can earn 51% of the company's 100% working interest and become vested in the joint venture by spending US$1.4 million on the properties over four years.
		Stockholm-based Boliden is involved in the exploration, mining and smelting of non-ferrous ores in Sweden, Spain, Saudi Arabia, CIS, Argentina, and West Africa.
		Boliden is one of the world's major producers of copper, lead, zinc, silver and gold as well as sulphur products.
	www.infomine.com /press_releases/ser/pr031897ser.html (514 words)

	Campaigns: Strike In Copperhill, Tennessee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Boliden began a new pension plan for the workers and assumed none of the old liabilities, saving the Swedish company $16 million.
		In exchange for this union cooperation, Boliden made assurances to the workers that Swedish managers would be brought in to run the business, that the company's headquarters would be in Copperhill, and that management would work cooperatively with the unions.
		In other words, Boliden fired workers who had been employed at the facility for decades, simply for exercising their right to withhold their labor and be union members.
	www.icemna.org /ecmpcpr1.htm (2884 words)

	Globeinvestor.com: BOLIDEN AND OUTOKUMPU TO CREATE A WORLD-LEADING MINING
		In addition, New Boliden is planning a guaranteed rights issue, in the order of EUR 150 million (SEK 1.4 billion) as an integral part of the deal.
		The New Boliden's pro forma net sales for 2003 are estimated to be EUR 1.6 billion (SEK 14.7 billion), of which 80 percent is coming from smelting and refining and 20 percent from mining.
		In New Boliden, world-class assets are now being combined, which with increased competitive strength from a strong Nordic base, will be able to create long-term profitability and substantial growth potential.
	www.globeinvestor.com /servlet/WireFeedRedirect?cf=GlobeInvestor/config&vg=BigAdVariableGenerator&date=20030908&archive=infolink&slug=20030908083150 (1395 words)

	Boliden Bergsöe AB - English version - Environment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Boliden Bergsöe AB was approved in accordance with ISO 14001 during the spring of 2001.
		Boliden Bergsöe AB is an important link in the ecocycle process.
		Boliden Bergsöe AB has a concession from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency to supply 50,000 metric tons of lead a year and 5,000 metric tons of other metals, including 1,500 metric tons of tin a year.
	www.bolidenbergsoe.se /eng/pages/miljo.htm (658 words)

	Boliden Acquires British Brass Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This acquisition will enable Boliden to merge the two businesses and concentrate production, thereby creating a stronger brass producer in the UK with increased competitiveness and enhanced profitability.
		In April 2003, Boliden MKM signed a letter of intent regarding the acquisition of Cerro Extruded Metals Limited operations from the Marmon Group Limited.
		This acquisition is expected to generate an increase in Boliden MKM's turnover to GBP 60 million and a total annual production of 50 000 tonnes of brass.
	www2.cdn-news.com /newsnet/2003/06/30/0630003n.html (298 words)

	Mining Technology - Boliden Silver Mine - Garpenberg - Sweden
		The Garpenberg silver and base metals operation is now wholly owned by "new" Boliden, based in Stockholm, the entity created in January 2004 by consolidating the zinc and copper mining and smelting interests of Boliden AB (51%) and Outokumpu Oy (49%).
		Copper and lead concentrates are trucked to Boliden’s recently expanded Ronnskär smelter, while the zinc mainly goes to Norzink in Norway (see also Aitik and Boliden Area Operations).
		For 2003, Boliden reported a significant year-on-year increase in production, with contained metal outputs of 44,314t of zinc (37,392t in 2002) and 16,002t of lead (15,022t), although the copper yield fell to 531t (676t), silver to 123,278kg (123,978kg) and gold to 216kg from 284kg.
	www.mining-technology.com /projects/garpenberg (815 words)

	The Los Frailes tailings dam failure (Aznalcóllar, Spain)
		Boliden now urgently demands the licensing of stabilization works which had been postponed by the judge who is in charge of the Doñana case, to allow investigations into the cause of the failure.
		The report agrees with Boliden that the dam failure was caused from a failure of the Blue Marl formation beneath the impoundment; but it falls behind Boliden's position in saying that this failure was unforseeable.
		Boliden claims damages from the Spanish construction company Dragados: Boliden's Spanish subsidiary Boliden Apirsa has filed a notice of litigation against Dragados y Construcciones S.A., a member of the construction company Dragados S.A., listed in Spain, in connection with the failure of the tailings dam at the Los Frailes mine, Spain, in 1998.
	www.wise-uranium.org /mdaflf.html (3043 words)

	Klein Lyons Boliden Class Action News
		Boliden executives had been warned of problems with the dam in 1992 and 1995.
		In 1995, a former Boliden engineer filed a formal complaint with the regional government's environmental agency alleging deficiencies in the construction of the dam.
		Named as defendants in the lawsuit are Boliden Limited, its principle officers and directors, Boliden's Swedish parent companies and Nesbitt Burns, which was the main underwriter of the initial offering.
	www.kleinlyons.com /boliden/news1.html (437 words)

	Investor's Business Daily: Breaking News
		"New Boliden has the capacity to be one of the world's leading mining and smelting companies in terms of environmental protection, safe workplaces and top-level occupational healthcare, areas that at Boliden all come under the concept of Environmental Affairs," says Tom Niemi, Deputy CEO of Boliden.
		Boliden is now continuing work on a new organisation that includes both the formal Group function known as Environmental Affairs, and the work performed within its company-wide network.
		Boliden is one of the leading mining and smelting companies in the world with operations in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Ireland and Canada.
	www.investors.com /breakingnews.asp?journalid=20915391&brk=1 (609 words)

	TietoEnator helps Boliden dig for gold with effective invoice handling
		Established in Sweden in 1924 Boliden Limited is a mining and metals company with integrated exploration, mining, smelting and manufacturing operations around the globe.
		Boliden Mineral is to be found in five locations in Sweden.
		The gains for Boliden with the supplied solution are partly financial, the working time per handled invoice is reduced and partly the interest costs for delayed invoice payments are reduced.
	www.tietoenator.com /?path=1,96,135,6156 (377 words)

	HGE: By Design (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Boliden has been involved in capturing and treating mercury from process gas and effluent streams for more than 30 years.
		Recently, the Boliden mercury removal processes have found uses not only in non-ferrous smelters but also in other kinds of installations, such as waste incineration plants.
		Boliden's long experience with mercury handling has lead to the development of know-how and technologies to effectively deal with mercury bearing effluents in a cost effective and environmentally compliant manner.
	www.hggroup.com /hge/bydesign/2001ed2bol.html (267 words)

	North Atlantic Natural Resources AB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Boliden and North Atlantic Natural Resources AB (NAN) are pleased to announce that a formal agreement has been concluded regarding exploration in the Skellefte District.
		Jan Johansson, CEO of Boliden, states "This agreement is a step forward in exploiting the full exploration potential of the Skellefte District, enhancing the chances of identifying future mineralisations which may provide feed to the Boliden mill in the longer term".
		Boliden is one of NAN's major shareholders with 38% holding.
	www.nanr.se /eng/pr020313.shtml (254 words)

	10/31/01 -- National Park left damaged as Boliden Limited pulls out of Doñana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Madrid, Spain - The Swedish-Canadian mining company, Boliden Limited is courting environmental disaster and potentially putting more than one million people's drinking water at risk by withdrawing from Spain's Doñana National Park, without properly closing down its mine there, according to WWF, the conservation organziation.
		The Guadalquivir Water Basin Authority has also said that it considers the rubber seal of the mine, put in place by Boliden, to be insecure and a potential cause of contamination in both Guadiamar and Doñana.
		Boliden and the local authorities have to take responsibility for what could be a long term problem potentially affecting over a million people and devastating once more this fragile ecosystem," Guido Schmidt added.
	forests.org /archive/europe/napaleft.htm (618 words)

	Minerals Engineering International Online - General Minerals Engineering: Latest News
		Boliden and Outokumpu have completed the transaction whereby Boliden acquires Outokumpu's mining and smelting operations within zinc and copper and sells its fabrication and technology sales operations to Outokumpu.
		There is a clear logic in combining Boliden's and Outokumpu's mining and smelting operations within zinc and copper.
		In New Boliden, world-class assets are now combined, which with increased competitive strength from a strong Nordic base will be able to create long-term profitability and substantial growth potential.
	www.min-eng.com /general/42.html (192 words)

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