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- High tech dam safety
- Building trust with Sami communities
- Minimizing environmental impact with volcanic clay
- Extracting zinc through steel mill dust recycling at Rönnskär
- Landfilled sulphur residue set to be Kokkola’s next resource
- Secondary material recycling and synergies
- Sustainable water management at Boliden
- Kokkola jarosite research
- Purification of manganese from anode sludge at Kokkola
- Converting secondary materials from electronics into precious metals at Harjavalta
- A moment of truth for electrification at Aitik
- Plastic recycling at Bergsöe
- When the environment and economy both win
- Contributing to a circular economy at Kokkola
- Mine automation improves safety
- Dead wood brings forest to life
- Largest electronic material recycler in the world
- Scrap lead batteries recycled to new raw material
- Gillervattnet reclamation project
- Reducing waste and enhancing profitability
- Fjord clean up at the Odda smelter
- Safety culture and business stability go hand in hand
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Mineral concentrate becomes pure quality metals
In our smelters we refine mineral concentrates from our own and other mines into pure metals. We are also the market leader in electronics recycling and lead recovery from car batteries. Constant streamlining and stable processes allow us to maximize the production of both metals and by-products in a strategy that provides a broader product range, lower residual waste in production and increased competitiveness. We also focus on safeguarding and developing our corporate responsibility in terms of health, safety and the environment at every level.
Metal production – how it works
We mine complex ores, i.e. ores that contain several different metals The metals and other by-products are separated in smelting plants in a variety of different processes including smelting, calcination, leaching, purification and electrolysis before being cast as pure metals.
Our smelters produce mainly zinc ingots, copper cathodes, lead ingots, gold and silver granules and other products such as sulphuric acid, zinc clinker, sulphur dioxide and palladium concentrate.
