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Boliden has four mining areas and five smelters. Sweden is home to the Aitik copper mine in Gällivare, and the zinc mines in the Boliden Area and Garpenberg. The Tara zinc mine is located in Ireland. The copper smelters are Rönnskär in Skelleftehamn, Sweden, and Harjavalta/Pori in Finland. The zinc smelters are in Kokkola, Finland, and Odda in Norway. Sweden is also home to the Bergsöe lead smelter in Landskrona. Boliden's Swedish smelters are extensively involved in metal recycling and early 2012 will see the completion of a programme tripling the recycling capacity of the Rönnskär copper smelter.
Boliden is always interested in forging links with students reading such subjects as geology, chemistry, chemical engineering, IMP, mechanical engineering and applied physics. We are also interested in those studying to become mining engineers or process operators.
Boliden in Sweden
Thesis work
Boliden publishes a directory of suggested thesis work subjects every January on its Swedish website, together with contact details for further information. Different compensation terms apply, depending on the scale of the work and on where the thesis work is carried out. The directory is then revised regularly throughout the year as suggested subjects are converted into thesis work projects.
Mentors
Boliden can, if necessary, supply a mentor. We do this because we believe that it is important that students gain a better insight into what a particular type of training can lead to and the various possibilities when it comes to future occupational roles. The mentor appointed by Boliden will be a recent graduate with a similar background to the student in question.
Contact person
Each personnel department has at least one contact person who is responsible for the training courses in which the unit is involved. This applies to both upper secondary school courses and those provided by colleges of further education and universities.
Work experience positions
Many training courses include periods of work experience and Boliden is happy, time and resources permitting, to accept work experience students from a number of educational fields.
Work experience enquiries are best submitted via the unit's contact person. A work experience enquiry should ideally include a description by the applicant of their intended subject field, their expectations of a work experience position at Boliden, and the hoped-for end result. Boliden's undertakings, in conjunction with offering a work experience position, include the provision of appropriate duties for the work experience in question, and of practical equipment and a mentor to guide the student through the process.
Boliden in Norway
Boliden Odda offers students and researchers the opportunity to carry out thesis work and to write dissertations in a number of interesting fields of relevance to our operations. Process optimisation, process technology and maintenance optimisation in the value chain during the production of zinc and aluminium fluoride (alf3) are just a few examples. The exchange between doctoral students and Boliden's employees usually proves to be valuable in a number of ways, particularly when it comes to developing our chemical processes, which are often highly complex.
Boliden provides mentors and other relevant forms of support, and a list of relevant subjects is available upon request.
For further information, please contact: bjorn.vivelid@boliden.com
Boliden in Finland
Boliden Harjavalta offers students the chance to carry out their thesis work in a number of areas of relevance to our operations.
For further information, please contact: anu.vartiainen@boliden.com
Boliden Kokkola also offers students at universities or colleges of applied sciences the chance to carry out their thesis work in a number of areas.
For further information, please contact: petra.maunula@boliden.com
Boliden in Ireland
Boliden's Tara zinc mine has active partnerships with a number of local schools and universities. Many training courses include periods of work experience and Boliden is happy, time and resources permitting, to accept students and work experience students. In some cases, the aim is to provide an insight into working life, while in others, it is to offer the student a chance to carry out thesis work or to work on a dissertation. The partnerships offer students valuable work experience, while Boliden benefits from the opportunity to share in the development of new and potentially important knowledge.
Cooperating with schools and universities also enables Boliden to forge closer links with students, primarily at the nearby upper secondary school, Beaufort College, by providing advice, etc., on career paths and training for job interviews.
Boliden Tara offers students the chance to carry out their thesis work in a number of areas of relevance to our operations.
For further information, please contact: eoghan.o'neill@boliden.com