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The Board ensures that the new mining contest will respond to business demand
Sanchez Maldonado · EFE
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The Minister of economy, innovation and employment, science, José Sánchez Maldonado, said this Thursday in Parliament that the new mining contest for the province of Huelva, organised by the Andalusian Government will allow a reorganization of the mining sites and respond to business demand in this area.
Sanchez Maldonado explained that this call provides research companies a total of 90 rights across 33,500 hectares and would involve a total of 31 municipalities, "some with tradition in the field of metal mining, as Riotinto, Nerva Almonaster and others, like Almonte or Bonares, with significant resources of another nature".
Adviser pointed out that the Junta de Andalucía now convened in the first quarter of this year another mining competition focused specifically on metallic subsector, where a total of 130 rights became available to research companies.
Through these competitions, he has said Sanchez Maldonado, the Government of the Board, within their competence, "guarantees the dynamism of the sector, promoting research and making possible new mining initiatives capable of generating employment and wealth".
The contest now also includes rights expired in regions furthest from the Iberian pyrite belt, relative to other resources that also exist in Huelva as peat, ornamental rock sulphurous waters and quartz.
According to Sánchez Maldonado, this new call answers to target double update the mining registry of Andalusia, "in line with the modernization established in the Pormian, to generate an increasingly competitive mining sector", and update each of these rights.
In the same way, he explained, are invited "to provide a more effective reorganization of the mineral deposits, by the rise of the metal mining and to respond to a claim that the business sector has raised repeatedly".
In addition, contest "affect directly in a greater and better understanding of Andalusian mining reality, which will serve to make decisions and plan administration and companies to estimate the economic possibilities of a particular deposit",