The state is circling closer to Cin19 Jan 2019 09:16
The state is circling closer to Cínovec lithium
17.1.2019
The Czech state can preferentially occupy deposits of important raw materials, the best known of which is lithium. An obstacle in the form of an antitrust office has disappeared. PRAHA The media storm around lithium took the first parliamentary elections, but the theme did not cool down in the lower deck. The fever of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) continues and impresses urgently responsible ministries for the results. Now they will be able to respond faster; part of the work until recently stood because it was expected that the antitrust office will cope with the initiative of the Mining Union. LN found that the Office for the Protection of Competition (the Office for the Protection of Competition) had already decided and did not identify with the reservations of private miners. "At the end of last year, the Mining Union's initiative on raw materials policy was resolved, and the Office did not find the reasons for the opening of administrative proceedings," LN Spokeswoman Martin Švanda said. The pilots filed an initiative last summer, hailing that the government, in the name of public interest, provided the state-owned company Diamo, in cooperation with the Czech Geological Survey, priority rights to establish exploration areas over interesting mineral deposits on the basis of an updated raw materials policy. Priority right to exploration means a preferential right to exploitation. It concerns the so-called critical raw materials of the European Union, none of which are found in our territory in a meaningful quantity or state, as well as tantalum, zirconium, titanium, gold, lithium and uranium. Part of the government's mandate is a preliminary estimate of how much lithium is located under the Ore Mountains in Cínovec and how much it would come to get it out in a profitable form. This provokes the most irritation, because the mining law de facto breaks down, as Czech lands have known since the Middle Ages. Who puts - like the Australian EMH company on Cínovci - hunted sums into exploration, has the privilege right to extract and monetize treasures there. If it is not a state, it is a mining fee. But in the Ore Mountains, the state is still looking for the aisle that would reach lithium, although the upper law is now on the side of the Australians. "Diamo will prepare a feasibility study on the feasibility of adopting a lithium deposit in the Cínovec area in 2019, using existing publicly available data, offering options for opening and processing of raw materials, which will allow for a recommendation on state access to Cínovec bearing. a background to potential state negotiations with private investors, "summarizes the activities of the Ministry of Industry's material, which LN has at its disposal, and will soon be briefed by the ministry. Without an agreement this will not work Premier's vision was that lithium deposits in the p