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Once crushed, the ore will be transferred to the flotation process, whereby "first lead and then zinc, they are separated from the rest of the ground material, concentrating from an initial grade of around 4% to a grade of about 61% in the case of Zn concentrate and 70% in the case of Pb." The process ends with the processing of the waste to dry deposit it in a rubbish dump on the surface and wet back to the mine.

The product is transferred by bulk truck to a foundry, such as the one found in Castrillón (Asturias), to obtain high purity zinc, lead and silver after refining.

Currently, the Europa Metals project is in a time of Exceptional Extension for three years to maintain the research and has already been presented to the municipalities of Sobrado, Carucedo, Toral de los Vados, Carracedelo and Borrenes. Until November 15, 2023, Europa Metals will continue to design its mining project in Toral to submit the application for the Grant of Operation in the shortest possible time.

The consultancy Bara Consulting has been developing its conceptual study of the project especially in the areas of metallurgy, resource estimation and geotechnics something that will be announced to give birth to a Pre-Viability Study (PFS). Within that study, the company Probes and Industrial Drillings of Bierzo SA (SPI) is carrying out a new drilling campaign since the beginning of this year.

With the data from that survey, the data will be processed to develop software "that corrects the deviation of the boreholes carried out by drilling with core recovery," the company explains. At the same time, the company seeks support for its project as an R&D focus.

In this sense, he assures that professors of the Faculties of Biology or Geology of the University of Salamanca, of Biodiversity at the University of León, as well as of the Miguel Hernández University of Elche, and researchers from departments such as Biodiversity and Environmental Management, through departments such as Ethnobotany, Taxonomic and Plant Conservation at the University of León or the Mining, Petrology of the Complutense of Madrid, contribute from the academic field their technical solvency to contribute to the technical, social and environmental standards of the so-called Toral Project.

The date is written 05/03/2021 it’s actually the 3rd of may this is written

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Europa Metals is preparing to produce zinc, lead and silver in Toral since 2023
COMPANY The multinational has already invested in the Bercian project, which is currently under investigation, 5 million and plans to hire 200 employees
Europa Metals Iberia SL, a subsidiary of Europa Metals Ltd, a company registered in Australia, intends to land in Toral de los Fords with a project to produce zinc, lead and silver in Bierzo, an idea that is under investigation and could start operating in three years.

Under the name of Proyecto Toral, the multinational frames in Bierzo its most important business activity in Castilla y León. Since 2007 he has studied the recovery of an enclave that has taken advantage of previous studies from the 1980s. Building on a previous mining operation "drastically reduces the visual impact of the project," explains the company.

After mapping the exploitation and examining the geochemistry of the soils, the work has determined "anomalies in Zn, Pb and Ag whose extension has been verified with surveys. In total, more than 100 mining research surveys have been carried out, with depths of up to 1,285 meters." These works define a "mineral deposit of about 3 kilometers in length and thickness varying around 3 meters. The recognized depth is about 900 meters although the deposit is open in depth."
15 years of activity and 2nd jobs
The deposit contains the order of 16 Mt of ore, according to the first studies and an extraction of 450,000 tons per year of ore is expected as a base - with the possibility of expansion. That offers a life to the project of about 15 productive years but it will take between 2 and 3 years for its construction.

Annual production is estimated at 16,500 tons of zinc, 15,000 tons of lead and 8,000 kilograms of silver. As for the employment you will need to carry out the project, it will be 200 workers directly.

The investment that Europa Metals has made so far exceeds 5 million euros. The idea is that half of the sterile generated returns to the mine and it is expected that the surface deposit will be about 2.6 Mm3. The method of exploitation takes into account that filling of the interior of the mine with the sterile generated.

Access to the mine will be through a ramp and well and the method that is being evaluated as the most appropriate is that of mechanized cutting and filling. Once extracted, the ore will pass through a ramp to the crusher on the upper levels. For most of the deposit the ore will be extracted by well, which will give way to the tape that reaches the processing plant.

Jobs created

El Bierzo receives 1.4 million for the creation of jobs in 11 mining municipalities of the region

The Governing Council approved this morning, on a proposal from the Ministry of Employment and Industry, a set of subsidies, worth 3.6 million euros, aimed at hiring the unemployed in the municipalities of the mining basins of León and Palencia. This aid is part of the measures included in the Economic Revitalization Plan of the Mining Municipalities of Castilla y León that seeks to favor the diversification of productive activity in the mining basins of the Community, so that, after the end of coal mining, these territories have alternatives for their economic and social development and can fix population.

The incentives approved this morning are aimed at the 31 municipalities of the mining basins protected by Royal Decree 675/2014 of August 1, 24 of them in the province of León and 7 in the province of Palencia. The aid will allow the beneficiary municipalities to finance part of the salary and social security costs derived from the hiring of people registered as unemployed with the Public Employment Service of Castilla y León (Ecyl) for the realization of works and services of general and social interest. In this way, in addition to favoring job creation, the subsidies will allow local entities to improve public spaces and services of their competence. The Junta de Castilla y León will also advance 50% of the amount committed, in order to facilitate the management of the program at a time of economic difficulties for all public administrations, forced to face extraordinary expenses to respond to the emergency generated by COVID-19.

The subsidies will serve to finance a maximum amount of 10,000 euros per worker by facilitating the hiring of about 360 workers, over a period of 180 days. Employment contracts should preferably be directed to surplus unemployed in the mining sector and, in their absence, to young people under 35 years of age - in particular, without qualifications - long-term unemployed, unemployed over 45 years of age, unemployed women (especially victims of gender violence), people with disabilities, people at risk of social exclusion, immigrants, returned migrants and refugees or asylum seekers and other ethnic minorities.

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