It gleams a little everywhere in the little quartz piece that Torbjörn Grahn holds in his hand at home in the kitchen in Vindelgransele. The gold grains are clearly visible.

"Nobody can assume from us that it was we who found the golden thread in Fäbodliden," says Torbjörn Grahn, who co-founded Lapland Goldminers, which started its business about a decade ago.

Gold for 50 million

But the company never got any profit in its business and went bankrupt in 2014. Instead, the Australian mining company Dragon Mining managed to buy the permits for breaking the bankruptcy estate. The price was SEK 40 million and this summer a test mining was carried out and 60,000 tonnes of ore was obtained. It contained just over 100 kilos of gold worth about SEK 50 million.

- We're happy. The gold price right now is record high and it is very positive for this project, says Josh Stewart, project manager for the mine in Fäbodliden.

But not everyone is pleased. Land owner Rolf Eriksson is sorry about how nature has been destroyed. Hear him and see the mine in the clip above.