Boliden — Major Shareholding Notification 2011

May 17, 2011

Issuer Boliden AB

Holder

BlackRock, Inc.

Instrument

Instrument	Common Stock SE0000869646
Before the transaction
Shares	Data not given*
Voting rights	Data not given*
Transaction
Reason for major shareholding notification Buy
Date	13/05/2011
Limit for number of shares	5 %
Limit for number of votes	5 %
After the transaction
Quantity
Shares	13,775,891
Directly held voting rights	0
Indirectly held voting rights	13,775,891
Percentage
Directly held shares	5.04 %
Directly held voting rights	0 %
Indirectly held voting rights	5.04 %

Resulting distribution of total holdings

	Percentage of voting rights:	Number of underlying shares:
Shares

Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 2 Instruments - FITA Ch. 4, section 2, first paragraph, line 3

• Physically settled
• Cash settled

Total

Chain of controlling companies

Voting rights % Voting rights Company

288,573	0.11	BlackRock Asset Management Australia Limited
771,653	0.28	BlackRock Asset Management Japan Limited
2,057,808 0.75		BlackRock Advisors (UK) Limited
401,089	0.15	BlackRock Asset Management Deutschland AG
7,245,434 2.65		BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A.
1,596,289 0.58		BlackRock Fund Advisors
131,465	0.05	BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited
23,635	0.01	BlackRock Advisors, LLC
414,493	0.15	BlackRock Investment Management, LLC
21,048	0.01	BlackRock Investment Management (Australia) Limited
47,385	0.02	BlackRock (Netherlands) B.V.
78,660	0.03	BlackRock Fund Managers Limited
248,371	0.09	BlackRock Asset Management Ireland Limited
17,692	0.01	BlackRock International Limited
302,153	0.11	BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited
4,510	0.002	BlackRock (Luxembourg) SA
125,633	0.05	BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.

Group total holdings

Voting rights 13,775,891 Percentage of voting rights 5.04

Published

17/05/2011 09:59 Contact Phone +44 20 7743 1000

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