Glossary
Norwegian terms that carry procedural meaning. The English gloss sits beside the original, never in its place.
| Term | Note |
|---|---|
| arealplan (land-use plan) | A municipal plan fixing how land may be used; the planning instrument through which the mine was written into Kvalsund's future, source: https://arealplaner.no/hammerfest5603/arealplaner/search. |
| befaring (site inspection) | |
| Bergmester (Inspector of Mines) | The state mining official for a district, predecessor of today's Directorate of Mining (Dirmin). |
| Direktoratet for mineralforvaltning (Directorate of Mining) | Dirmin, the state agency holding the largest collection in this archive, source: https://www.dirmin.no/data/unders%C3%B8kelsesrapporter. |
| driftskonsesjon (operating licence) | The permit under the Minerals Act that allows extraction to begin. |
| fylkeskommune (county authority) | |
| kommune (municipality) | |
| konsekvensutredning (environmental impact assessment) | |
| planprogram (planning programme) | The document that sets out what a plan and its impact assessment will examine. |
| reguleringsplan (zoning plan) | A detailed land-use plan for a specific area, such as the mine and deposit sites. |
| Research Archive | Data collection that has informed the research into the bureaucratic life of the Nussir mine. Beyond a spreadsheet, different modes of data visualization are explored in order to represent an archive in spatial, temporal, and contemporary ways - that map the information's distribution over time, their institutional authorship, and their overarching relations across shifting mine ownership. |
| saksfremlegg (case presentation) | The administration's written presentation of a case to a political body, usually with a recommended decision. |
| saksutredning (case report) | |
| Sámediggi (Sámi Parliament) | Sametinget in Norwegian. |
| utmål (extraction right) | A claim granting the exclusive right to extract minerals within a defined area. |