STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 4 (UPI) -- A Canadian mining company has applied for a concession to seek uranium and gold in western Sweden.
Mawson Resources aims to explore a tract of land north of Dals Langed, in Dalsland, using radiation detectors, The Local, an English-language newspaper, reported Thursday.
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Samples taken by the Geological Survey of Sweden in 1980 from two unused mineshafts showed readings of 4.7 percent uranium oxide, or 28 grams per ton of ore, as well as 10 grams of silver and 25 percent iron oxide, plus traces of tungsten and other metals.