The Government has brought an action plan to manage the mineral resources that includes a National Mining Exploration Programthe first of this type that is about carrying out in democracy. That is, more than fifty years later, Spain will explore new deposits and track what can contain the more than a thousand rafts and dumps in our country.
The difference with 1969 – the premiere fact of the last national mining program – is that the focus, and could not be otherwise, is no longer put in coal or iron, but in lithium, nickel, cobalt or rare earths, fundamental resources for the technology industry and to advance in the energy transition and, not least, to deal with China, which holds the monopoly in several critical minerals that the EU needs rare).
More than a year ago that the European Parliament and the Council approved the Critical RAW Materials Act, A regulation that aims to compensate for the dependence of the old continent with third countries in 34 key raw materials, but the geopolitical crisis opened by Trump and its tariff war have increased the urgency that the EU ends the corset that had imposed on its mining.
Currently in Spain there are some 2,700 mining farmsmany of them dedicated to provisioning the construction sector. However, there are also material deposits necessary for automotive, telephony or renewables (lithium, copper or cobalt) or the so -called ‘rare earth’.
As advanced, mining exploration is just a leg of the so -called Mineral Raw Matters Action Plan, which also includes measures for the recovery of materials through recycling or restoration of soils used for mining activities. Today the procedure has been opened so that civil society organizations involved and companies – which may benefit from aid – present allegations. Among things to consult, by the way, there is also a reform of the 1973 mines law In line with the proposal made yesterday by the Government, which is the one that Europe asks for.
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