Bleikvassli Location

Primary access to the Bleikvassli property is via paved road, with the site of the former mine connected by paved and maintained road to the town of Bleikvasslia, which is itself connected to the rest of Norway via the national highway system (highway FV291 connects south to other communities; FV806 to the north; FV324 to the east). Apart from these maintained public highways, there are a variety of municipal and private access roads which allow access to much of the property. Mountainous areas in the southern and eastern parts of the property may require access methods other than public roadways, however no point on the property is more than a few kilometers from paved road access.

Passenger rail service is available from Oslo or Trondheim to the town to Bjerka (population 500), 30 km north of Bleikvasslia. The nearest airport is in Mo I Rana 60 km north of Bleikvasslia, which has daily connecting flights to Oslo and Trondheim.  The town of Mo I Rana (population 18,600) offers a range of services including hotel, fuel, freight, groceries, hardware and transport services to elsewhere in Norway. Hattfjelldal, and Korgen (both within an hour’s drive of the property) provide similar services somewhat closer than Mo I Rana. Services in the town of Bleikvasslia itself are limited to a small grocery store. It is expected that these and other small towns in the area will provide a source of unskilled labor, with the possibility of lesser amounts of skilled labor given the mining history of the area.

Fieldwork on the property is possible from the end of May until early October, while snow may cover parts of higher elevations late into the summer. Drilling operations should be possible year-round, depending on access considerations dictated by snow cover and potentially avalanche risk in areas of steeper topography.

Electrical power is actively supplied by commercial operators to both the town of Bleikvasslia and the site of the Bleikvassli mine; as the mine was last in operation in 1997 capacity should still exist to power any future mining operations without significant expansion of infrastructure.

Concentrates could be shipped through the port of Mo I Rana, located 60 kilometres north of Bleikvassli and accessible via existing paved roads.

Reference: 2021 Technical Report on the Bleikvassli Project by David Swanton, M.Sc., P.Geo. dated January 27, 2021