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Boliden Zinkgruvan

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Boliden Zinkgruvan

Sweden's most southern mine

The zinc mine in Askersund municipality has been in continuous operation since 1857, producing zinc, lead and copper concentrates. Today, the facility includes an underground mine and a concentrator with associated infrastructure. The concentrator has two processing lines, a zinc line with a capacity of approximately 1.5 million tons per year and a copper line that can process both copper ore and zinc-lead ore.

The zinc mine is located in the southern part of Bergslagen at a massive zinc-lead deposit, which extends over more than 5,000 meters and down to a depth of 1,400 meters. The ore bodies are 3-40 meters thick and consist mainly of sphalerite (zinc ore) and galena (lead ore).

The mine has a high degree of automation and mainly uses a combination of longitudinal and transverse long-hole mining. The exhausted rock cavities are backfilled with paste and cement, or waste rock.

Established: 1857
Operating profit: SEK 600 m (2024)
Average number of employees: 480
Type of mine: underground
Mine depth: 1,400 metres

With it’s 480 employees, Boliden Zinkgruvan is the largest private employer in Askersund municipality.

In 2024, around 1,430 ktonnes of ore were processed to form metal concentrates containing zinc, lead, copper and silver.

Do you want to feel that your work makes a difference? When you work with us, you are helping to enable the climate transition. You also contribute to both managing a heritage in the form of a long company history, but also to further developing our business for the future. We do this together. We all work for the same company

There are many different types of jobs and paths into the mining industry, both with and without a helmet. We have almost 100 different occupational groups. To see what jobs you can apply for right now, click on the link below.

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Explore our summer job opportunities!

At Boliden Zinkgruvan, we take on more than 60 summer workers in 22 professional categories every summer. Here you can work both above and below ground.

How about stepping into working life as a loader, driller, loader, process operator, process manager, caretaker, dust technician, conveyor belt passer, mechanic, geologist, paver, machine operator, electrician or warehouse worker?

In addition to being part of a great community with exciting tasks, you are contributing to a more sustainable future!

Apply for our summer jobs HERE!

Boliden Zinkgruvan

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Centrumvägen 1, 696 81 Zinkgruvan

+46 583 88 20 00

The world's most efficient open-pit copper mine