Today’s waste becomes tomorrow’s resources

Today’s waste becomes tomorrow’s resources

Recycling and innovation supplies “Critical Raw Materials” from a European source, for use in green technology and food production. Learn more about the ReeMAP project.

Today's waste
Fossil-free production

Fossil-free production

Renewable energy and hydrogen enable emission savings up to the equivalent of 1% of Sweden’s total emissions. Learn more about the processes.

Fossil-free
LKAB industrial park for critical minerals

LKAB industrial park for critical minerals

A high-tech cluster is created that brings academia and industry together to develop tomorrow’s resource solutions. Learn more about the investment, jobs and value creation.

LKAB industrial park for critical minerals

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LKAB chooses Luleå for the circular industrial park for phosphorus and rare earth elements

By-products from iron ore mining will be extracted via innovative circular and fossil-free processes. · LKAB can increase Europe’s self-sufficiency in the critical raw materials phosphorus and rare earth elements that are needed for sustainable agriculture and the green transition · LKAB is now initiating consultation on the establishment, which will be operational in 2027 and can entail investments amounting to as much as 10 billion kronor and create more than 500 jobs.

6 May 2022

LKAB can replace Europe’s imports of phosphorus ore from Russia.

The new Per Geijer deposit contains up to eight times as much phosphorus compared to the orebodies currently mined by LKAB. With circular extraction of phosphorus and rare earth elements as by-products from iron ore mining, LKAB can potentially replace all imports of phosphorus to Europe from Russia. Phosphorus is one of three nutrients in mineral fertiliser and is necessary for our food production.

6 May 2022

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LKAB chooses Luleå for the circular industrial park for phosphorus and rare earth elements

By-products from iron ore mining will be extracted via innovative circular and fossil-free processes. · LKAB can increase Europe’s self-sufficiency in the critical raw materials phosphorus and rare earth elements that are needed for sustainable agriculture and the green transition · LKAB is now initiating consultation on the establishment, which will be operational in 2027 and can entail investments amounting to as much as 10 billion kronor and create more than 500 jobs.

6 May 2022

LKAB can replace Europe’s imports of phosphorus ore from Russia.

The new Per Geijer deposit contains up to eight times as much phosphorus compared to the orebodies currently mined by LKAB. With circular extraction of phosphorus and rare earth elements as by-products from iron ore mining, LKAB can potentially replace all imports of phosphorus to Europe from Russia. Phosphorus is one of three nutrients in mineral fertiliser and is necessary for our food production.

6 May 2022

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