Welcome to Europe’s most mineralized area. Västerbotten is the core of an extensive and rapidly growing mining region, where most of the assets are yet to be exploited. Locating here brings access to Sweden’s most important mineral deposits, as well as the mining and offshore industries in Norway, Finnish Lapland and the Murmansk/Kola Peninsula region.

Thanks to the dominating role mining has played in our trade and industry for centuries, mining infrastructure is well developed, with highly advanced mining and metallurgy R&D. There is local access to national and international mining institutions, and the world’s largest collection of drill core is available for research – free of charge!