Europe's largest deposit of rare earth elements now 25 percent larger – today marks the first step in critical review
LKAB is today submitting an application for a processing concession for the Per Geijer deposit in Kiruna.Since the discovery was reported as Europe's largest known rare earth oxide deposit earlier this year, further investigations have been carried out."This means, among other things, that we can now write up the mineral resources for rare earth oxides by 25% to over 1.3 million tonnes in situ," says Jan Moström, President and CEO of LKAB.Per Geijer is basically an iron ore deposit with high levels of both phosphorus and rare earth oxides. The grade of rare earth elements is ten times
