Description. The Gruvtur (Mine Tour) starts at the open air museum town Kåkstan in Malmberget and then visits the open-cast mine at Aitik. Kåkstan was built in 1888, in the early years wages were high and housing rare. Aitik Mine is a copper and gold mine, producing two tons of gold per year. It is the largest gold mine of Sweden and the …

Making world-class records. Just south of Gällivare in the north-central part of Sweden lies Boliden Aitik, the country's largest open pit copper mine with an impressive depth of 450 …

Aitik mine geology and reserves . The Aitik mine's orebody is hosted by a basin of volcanic rocks surrounded by granitic intrusions within a supracrustal metamorphosed shear zone of Precambrian age. Biotite schists in the volcanic sequence contain disseminated chalcopyritic mineralisation averaging less than 0.40% copper, as well as gold and ...

The new direction naturally entails challenges in the short term, but it also creates long-term opportunities in Aitik and a clear direction for how the business can be developed going forward," said Mikael Staffas, President and CEO of Boliden. Normally, the dam structures at Aitik's tailings pond are built and filled in line with production.

installations at Aitik. The motors range in power from 4 kilowatts to 3.36 megawatts and are used at almost every stage of the mining process. They drive the crushers in the mining pit, the conveyors carrying the crushed rock to the concentrator, the grinding mills, the pumps supplying water to the mills and removing the muddy waste left after the

Aitik . In Aitik, work continues on preparing the Liikavaara deposit, approximately 3 km northwest of Aitik, for mining. Exploration and evaluation are also underway at the Nautanen deposit, approximately 15 km north of Aitik. In Aitik, including Liikavaara, the Mineral Reserve largely decreases with what was mined during the year, 40.1 Mton.

A mine of efficiency Sophisticated ABB technologies extend life of Aitik copper mine Aitik, Boliden's impressive open-pit copper mine in northern Sweden, recently modernized its complete mining operation to double production capacity and extend the mine's lifespan to 2030. In spite of the low ore grades, Boliden

Miner Boliden said on Monday it would spend 5 billion Swedish crowns ($530 million) over the next two years on works on the tailings dam at its Aitik copper mine in northern Sweden.

The miner conducted a study to see if AI technology could be successfully applied to its concentration processes at its Aitik copper mine in northern Sweden. Johannes Sikström, development engineer and project manager for system technology at Boliden, said his division developed dynamic simulations of the mine's processes.

Swedish mining company Boliden has set a new production record at its Aitik copper mine. On July 14, 2013, 144 912 tons of ore passed through the plant, and thanks to a steadily increasing average production, July 2013 ended up being Aitik's most productive month to date with 3.5 million tons of ore. The mine is now operating at an annual ...

Name: Aitik mine. Location: The Aitik mine is located to the south of Gällivare, in northern Sweden. Controlling Company: Boliden. Brief History: The Aitik mine opened in 1968, …

The methods used to assess the effects of fragmentation on production at the mine included visual assessment, analysis of the drill and blasting costs of the production data, 2D image analysis ...

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Fragmentation is an important factor for improving downstream processes in mine operations. Six trials have been conducted at the Aitik copper mine to investigate the effect of ultra-short inter ...

The Aitik open pit is scheduled to reach an ultimate depth of 400m in the northern section by 2012. Aitik copper mine is one of four mines owned by Boliden. Located near …

Extraction of copper, silver and gold delivered sales revenues of SEK 3.5 billion in 2014. Aitik employs 700 people or almost ten percent of the entire local population of Gällivare. …

The mining in Aitik is commenced at three pushbacks designatedS3, N6and N7. Salmijärvi has one active pushbackcalledSA2.The mined out ore tonnage in 2020totaled 41661kt. Copper is the most valuable commodity in Aitik, accounting for about 80 % of the revenue. The second most valuable commodity is Gold at 15%, followed by Silver at 5%.

Gällivare is home to two mines: the copper mine Aitik and the iron ore mine LKAB. The open pit mine Aitik opened in 1968 and is one of Europe's largest copper mine today. In addition to copper the deposit consist of silver and gold. In Aitik you will find some of the largest machines in the world. Rock trucks that weigh 570 tons when fully ...

The Geological Survey of Sweden (SGU) has been contracted to describe the Quaternary geology of the Aitik region and site in order to provide background information necessary for the expansion of ...

Aitik is an open pit copper mine and a mill located 60 km north of the Arctic Circle in northern Sweden. The mine is Europe's largest open pit copper mine. It is in operation since 1968. It has proven and probable reserves of 213 million tonnes of ore at grades of 0.4% Cu, 0.2 g/t Au, and 3 g/t Ag (Jan. 1, 2000).

Boliden Aitik BolidenSwedish Copper Mine Converting Monster Trucks To. Mines Boliden Aitik The world s most efficient open pit copper mine Aitik just south of Gällivare in northern Sweden is Sweden s largest open pit coppermine The work in Aitik is done by some of the biggest machines in the world They include rock dumpers weighing 570 …

Boliden expects production to be unaffected at the mine as tailings could continue to be deposited in other parts of the pond. April 12, 2022. Swedish mining firm Boliden plans …

The Aitik copper mine is owned by Boliden AB and situated outside the town of Gällivare in northern Sweden. It is one of Europe's largest open pit copper mines. Associated with the copper, some quantities of gold and silver are produced alongside the main production. The mine was put into production in 1968, and the production was set at two million tonnes …

Aitik mine is by size the largest open-pit metal mine in Europe and the main pit measures over 3 km in length, 1.1 km in width and 435 m in depth ( Figure 2).Production in the Salmijärvi open-pit ...

Snapshot. Aitik is the world's most productive open-pit copper mine. Aitik is mined as an open pit complex consisting of the main pit, "Aitik", and two satellite pits "Salmijärvi", …

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Technology, Measurement While Drilling, Drill Monitoring, Image Analysis, System, Aitik Mine, Mining. Keyword [sv] Teknik Identifiers URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-45410 ISRN: LTU-EX--07/179--SE Local ID: 31a42e8e-bfe7-4d17-8e7d-b998fc478882 OAI: oai:DiVA:ltu-45410 DiVA, id: diva2:1018700 Subject / course Student thesis, at least 30 credits ...

Aitik copper mine is one of four mines owned by Boliden. Located near Gallivare, northern Sweden, the low-grade Aitik copper deposit was discovered in the early 1930s. Bulk …

It is the first trolley assist line in Finland and joins Boliden's other trolley operation at Aitik copper mine in Sweden, which uses 313 t 795F AC trucks. From December 2021 to February 2022, two trucks are being tested on the 500 m test track. In total, the final trolley track will be 1.3 km long.

The expansion will increase the mine's productivity to 55 tonnes/man hour, making Aitik one of the most efficient copper mines in the world. The previous production plan for Aitik ran …

Aitik is the largest open-pit copper mine in Europe and a world mining industry benchmark in mine efficiency. Output after the overhaul is set to rise from 43 t to 55 t/man-hour of work, Boliden says. As a result, the company can mine even lower-grade ore, allowing it to raise the mine's productive life by 13 years to 2029.

Outotec and Boliden have signed an extension of their service contract for Boliden's Aitik copper mine in Gällivare, Northern Sweden. The 3+2-year extension of the Life-Cycle Services agreement covers the supply of mill lining, chute lining solutions, preventive maintenance of the grinding circuit and recycling of used wear parts.