sentences:  From the closing to 1999, the company paid out more than NOK 100 million in dividend to the shareholders and was the company during that period to have the second-highest increase in share value increase on the Oslo Stock Exchange.Negotiations were started with Australian Bulk Minerals (ABM) for a leasing of the mine, the railway and other facilities.An agreement was signed in 1997, with the takeover date set to 31 December 1998.