Gold-Ore has fingers crossed for more gold at Sweden’s Bjorkdal mine
When the attitude toward mining and exploration in Latin America headed south, Vancouver-based Gold-Ore decided it best head in the opposite direction. The junior charted a course north and found itself in the Vasterbotten district of Sweden, 750 km above Stockholm. The area is known for its volcanogenic massive sulphide and lode gold deposits, most notably the Boliden deposit, which produced more than 3 million oz. gold between 1926 and 1967. The area is also host to the Bjorkdal mine, which Gold-Ore recently optioned from AIM-listed Minmet. The mine produced 31,000 oz. gold from stockpiles in 2004 but ounces are thinning and Gold-Ore hopes the Bjorkdal camp has still more gold to give. Senior staff writer Rob Robertson visited the camp and these are some of his photographs. His story appears in the Jan. 27-Feb. 2 issue of The Northern Miner.
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