U mining in Sweden, page-18

”Note: I have always maintained this project would never get to the mining stage due to the U content and Swedish law/environmental attitudes.” / growler1969

The uranium content in Häggån is, in itself, not an issue to not get exploitation concession, under the Minerals Act, nor to not get a permit for mining in accordance with the Environmental Code (1988:808) according to the following exclutions:

The Council on Legislation - Prohibition of uranium extraction
Scope of the Prohibition – Excerpts translated from Swedish to English:
The Swedish nuclear regulatory exemption regulations and the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority's regulations make it easy to determine whether or not mining activities involving non-uranium minerals are covered by the prohibition. Operations dealing with low levels of uranium (less than 200 ppm) are always excluded from the prohibition (Section 11 of the Nuclear Engineering Regulation). Operations dealing with high levels of uranium (over 200 ppm) are exempted from the prohibition, provided that the operation does not involve processing or physical or chemical enrichment for the purpose of extracting the radionuclides or the use of the radioactivity of the material.

A special situation is when, for example, the rare earth metal, e.g. yttrium is bound in the same mineral as uranium. Then it is only at the physical or chemical enrichment that the substances can be separated from each other. In this process, aqueous solutions with more or less pure uranium may occur. Provided that this solution is allowed to form waste, the procedure is also subject to the exception in the regulations. However, if uranium becomes a by-product and uses the uranium's fissile properties, the exception in the regulations does not apply.

According to the Geological Survey of Sweden (SGU), there are currently 15 mines in production in Sweden, of which 14 are metal mines and 1 claymine. In the areas where these activities are carried out, the uranium content is so low that they are
covered by the exception in Section 11 of the Nuclear Engineering Regulation. If the content in any case exceeds 200 ppm, these activities are also covered by the exemption in the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority's regulations.

Application for consultation pursuant to Chapter 12 6 § MB of the Environmental Code:
A right of a Swedish municipality is only to be able to participate or give an opinion in the consultation process held, by Aura Energy, with the County Administrative Board of Jämtland.

It is well known that there are locals that are in opposition to mining in Jämtland. Local opposition against mining exists all over the world.


P.S. I was listening to the live broadcast of the information meeting on the mining, in Berg Jämtland.


Kind regards,