A modern and efficient environmental assessment. That is the purpose of the new inquiry that the government has appointed today. Svemin has for many years criticized Sweden’s inefficient system for environmental assessments and therefore welcomes Tuesday’s announcement.

Director Environment at Svemin and project manager for the Environmental Conference, October 7-8

Half of Zinkgruvan’s summer substitutes are women. The previously heavily male-dominated mining industry is now seeing more and more women. Zinkgruvan’s goal is for 25% of the company’s 430 employees to be women and of the 60 summer temps this year, 50% were women. At Boliden and LKAB, almost every fourth employee in Sweden is…

The mining industry is important for Sweden and should be given the conditions to be developed to secure access to important metals, now and in the future. This is evident from this year’s SOM survey, where the Swedes’ attitudes towards mining has been investigated.

En majoritet i riksdagen kräver nu ökade lättnader för den hårt coronadrabbade prospekteringsbranschen. Det utvidgade förslaget från näringsutskottet ligger helt i linje med den hemställan Svemin skickade till regeringen redan i april. Mycket positivt att riksdagen börjar inse vikten av en fungerande gruvnäring, säger Maria Sunér Fleming, vd Svemin.