Tasman Metals, "a Canadian company for jurisdictional and thereby regulatory purposes," is a

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-based mining company that operated in

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. From 2009 to 2016 Tasman Metals owned the mining rights to, and explored for,

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in the

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area in the

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. In February 2016 the supreme administrative court of Sweden withdrew Tasman's exploitation concession for Norra Kärr. Until the mid-2010s Tasman Metals had the Kallak south licence in northern Sweden after which it sold it to Beowulf Mining.

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