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Article History

Received: 10 June 2021

Accepted: 16 August 2022

First Online: 1 September 2022

Declarations

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: One sole author with no need for ethics approval.

: One sole author—consent is granted.

: The author declares no competing interests.

: The author has during the period of preparing this manuscript held employment at and/or worked for (i) Swedish Geological AB—a private consultancy company engaged in providing advice on mineral sector development issues internationally, and in Sweden; and (ii) Georange, a Swedish membership NGO engaged in issues related to sustainable development in the mineral sector, primarily in Northern Sweden.With regard to funding, the authors’ manuscript is related to and therefore can be said to be partly made possible through work currently being performed in a project that Georange implements. The project in question has funding from the Swedish Mining Innovation programme (in turn funded by the Swedish Innovation Agency, the Swedish Energy Agency, and FORMAS), and it is concerned with establishing and strengthening a network of so called “mining municipalities”.