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I agree totally EricDraven... it’s nonsense to suggest that the RNS is a method of playing out politics in the public arena. If we have legally satisfied all legal criteria, then what is the issue?

I agree... I think most posters would. Maybe this asset is as big as we know it to be? Who knows...

Doing ‘nothing’ is always the first course of action so to speak... inaction based on prior knowledge that others might not be privy to, is always an option.

Let’s hope that Budge is armed with the facts that support his current course of action - waiting. We can only assume that he does? Things could move quite quickly given that the EIA is complete, once we receive the exploitation licence. However, if Budge is simply caught in the headlights, then it could be another 10-years waiting on Kosovo and Finland... I hope not.

Figures!!! Damn iPhone

And to be fair to mwilliams41, even fingers from thin air have some degree of basis to them. With 589m shares in issue, a theoretical SP at 0.50p, the mcap would be £294.5m. At 0.25p, £147.25m, and so forth. None of which are beyond the realms of possibility. Look at other companies on AIM at similar points of development, and they have ridiculously high market caps. We will see... But Budge needs to deliver...

Even the ugly blokes eventually get lucky if they hang around the nightclub long enough mwillians41. I’ve no doubt it will be a positive outcome. The issue is of course, when? And that area of doubt has proven detrimental to the SP, which I assume is why we are here - Cold hard cash?

We lose sleep whilst the Swedish Government loses face. But do they care? Not likely... have you ever met a politician within any self-awareness?

And the SP continues to slide in Sweden too...

The righteous left are always the wronged...

Meanwhile, our investment continues to slide...

I’m not entirely sure that the sales of mushrooms, berries and herbs will provide a great deal of tax revenue?

Part 4

What is the next step in the resistance?

We know nothing, we wait well until it gets sharp.

Mining Jokkmokk organizes a camp protesting against the mining plans in Gállok on July 19-21. What will happen there?

With the camp we show that we are on the track. Before it gets sharp, it's mainly about gathering, keeping flame burning and bringing together old and new activists, talking through the strategy and planning. It becomes an activist school, with speech, music and entertainment but also of course some manifestation.

What is needed to win?

Civil disobedience. Pig-headedness!

What does it look like, do you come with your people in Jokkmokk in this resistance?

Yes, it is much better now is 2012-13, first turn. Then there was probably 70 percent for the mine and we were only 30 percent who were critical. Now I would say it is the reverse. The pole has fallen down, the resistance has yielded results. Many have responded that they expected the state to have given factual information, but instead it is just propaganda from the grubbby from the government's mouth. So the resistance grows and many in Jokkmokk are really on their toes and waiting for the decision to come. I wonder if they up there even understand what they are going to do.

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Part 3

One hundred years ago, in 1905, the Sami tax land was stolen. It was land they had the same right to as small farmers to their parcels. With a pen stroke, a land robbery happened that was unparalleled; Here to Randijaur came the first Swedish settler in the 18th century. Until then, only Sami lived here…

The mining issue is also a climate issue, how do you look at it?

Really, to a great extent. All the time, dumpers, loaders, it blows up - there are huge emissions.

Luleå municipal councilor Niklas Nordström (S) believes that it is a "moral obligation" to ensure that the mine in Gállok and many more mines are opened in Norrbotten, precisely for the sake of the climate, that it should be broken here for otherwise it will be done in, for example, China or Congo and there will be more emissions and child labor ... How do you respond?

That is an old grip, a vulgar technique. They both open, they run on everything - in parallel, both with child labor in Congo and here. It does not release one because they also get through the other. And so-called green mines are just sneeze. For example, Aitik - it is not the case that the ore body just lies in the bottom of the open pit. In order to access the ore body, they must blow up the sides, thousands of tons of rock at a time. Huge dump trucks that load 340 tons go up slowly and tip over, down again and pick up. Often the whole blast is gray rock, no copper ore at all. In addition to uranium extraction, this is probably the most disgusting environment that a person can deal with.

Part 2
To see for themselves how to create jobs by running small-scale and sustainable operations, such as the processing of natural resources, such as berries, mushrooms or herbs, there is not - it is no real job! And small-scale tourism, it's just waffle.

What do you expect from the government?

We had expected the decision before mid-summer, it was forgotten about it but it didn't come. I think they say yes, that is, they give mining permits but then it is environmental testing before they can get a concession to actually start. And the environmental test will never go through, there are far too many factors that speak against.

Which?

The reindeer husbandry mainly, which we press for the reindeer husbandry law is stronger than the environmental legislation. And there would be huge, dramatic consequences for reindeer herding. The mine will cut straight through the village, which means that the reindeer will be driven into other villages' land, it will be chaos. And that reduces the bait as well.

The reindeer are, after all, a central part of the Sami culture that forms the basis of the World Heritage (Laponia). These reindeer are the same reindeer as the tourists watch in Laponia.
In other words, you mean that what Jokkmokk's municipal council has presented as its "trump card", that the geographical distance to Laponia is longer than from other mines that already exist, does not matter in other words?

Just.

Why should Norrbotten or people generally care about mine / not in Gállok?

It has been said that the mine would become "a small hole in a huge surface", that it will have no effect. It doesn't. To this hole is an enrichment pond, huge reservoirs where dust and sludge filled with heavy metals are deposited, embedded in a mine dust that is always considerably more insecure than a hydroelectric dam, which leaks and which sooner or later happens. And it should be in close proximity to Parkijaur - the top pond in the Lule river (Sweden's largest extended river). Going the dam here goes all the ponds along the Lule river. Downstream is Boden and also Luleå directly threatened. Not to mention what it would do with the water.

Whoever is far from both Gállok and Norrbotten, why should it bother?

Due to the fact that the indigenous Sami culture, through reindeer herding as its most famous cultural activity, risks falling apart. Once again, the Sami get their feet down because of the needs of the big society. For Sweden, there is only one: take and take and take timber, hydropower, wind power and mines. It's too damn bad.

Gruvindustrifolk has claimed that in Sweden the same problem does not apply as in, for example, Canada with the indigenous people there because "there has never been any colonization". What do you say about that?

You get almost speechless - it's such lies and manipulation! The colonization of Sápmi, it has been going on for hundreds of years and it is still going on.

For six years, Beowulf Mining has tried to get a processing concession to break iron ore in Gállok / Kallak outside Jokkmokk - now government decisions are waiting at any time. The company, which already claims to have invested SEK 80 million and boasts that they have Northern Europe's largest unexploited iron ore deposit in their hands, has been seeing their plans held back under the pressure of protests and growing local resistance that has also been felt by the authorities (the County Administrative Board said in November 2017 no to the mine).

The iron ore deposit in Gállok, just over four kilometers outside Jokkmokk, is said to be 3.6 km long and between 200 and 300 meters wide, with an iron content of 25-45 percent. It should be broken in between 14 and 25 years, says Beowulf and its adherents, as municipal councilor Robert Bernhardsson (S).

It is located on a small islet in the small Lule river, on the mountain Átjek's slopes right next to the hydro power dam Parkijaur. Under the pond's water, a Sami cult scene has long been buried - Ájek (thunder) has been seen as a sacred mountain. The tensions are now being built up for a discharge between the mine and the resistance that has grown into defense for both the climate, safe water and continued sustainable reindeer husbandry and tourism, and not least in protest against the colonization of Sápmi.

We interviewed Tor Tuorda, initiator of the network Gruvfritt Jokkmokk and resident in Randijaur, right next to the intended mine.

How do you look at the situation now?

The case lies with the government now, it has bounced forward for six years - it is very disrespectful indeed. Then no matter how it goes for Beowulf - it's just a lucky winner. We can expect that they are not the last.

They have promised 550 jobs. What do you say about that?

It's manipulation and exaggeration, that's not true. It's just to look at the technology development that is going on now. With automation, a new mine means a marginal job.

Then if we say that this mine is ready in four years, provided the government says yes tomorrow, and the environmental review goes through all odds and they get the concession. Then it will happen very much in four years. But Beowulf will never drive a mine itself. They prospect, they sell concessions. The most likely is that a Chinese company buys. There will be no jobs here - what the companies do is to bring in their own workforce, and then out again.

What do you say to Jokkmokksbor who still hopes for mining jobs?

It lives in some sort of 50's nostalgia. Where real jobs are those where you blow up things, run with big dumpers and big machines. They live in a dream world. So as it was once that Vattenfall, SCA, Sveaskog, someone from outside coming searcher - something big from the outside - will come again and fix the record.

We can only hope EricDraven that it is part of a plan to diversify, in the expectation that Kallak will be sold...

And I choose to stick with it, but that does not mean I’m happy, relaxed or accepting of this situation. It’s for Budge to resolve... He is the CEO, and he should answer for this issue.

I wasn’t the one throwing another date around was I? And you surely can’t find this state of affairs satisfactory?

Autumn is somehow a good thing? Really? And the only person to mention autumn is a poster on here. You’ve had plenty of option to ‘top-up’. And if you are so confident, now is as good a time as any to buy. I won’t be parting with a penny more...