andalusian mining strategy

17 Pages·2013·1.56 MB·English

ANDALUSI AN MINING STRATEGY
5th December 2013

SUSANA SARRIÁ
General Directorate of Industry, Energy and Mines
Regional Ministry of Economy, Innovation, Science and Employment
Government of Andalusia
[email protected]
THE GATEWAY TO EUROPE

 The second largest region in the Spanish State.
 A crossroads between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.
 Surface area of 33,818 sq.mi - similar to Hungary or Portugal.
 Population of 8.5 million.
A STRATEGIC SECTOR
 Andalusia has a huge potential of natural resources and great
biological, geological and landscape diversity.
 Considered one of the richest and best preserved regions in
Europe.
 Mining is a strategic sector for development and economic
growth.
 Mining in the region has created more than 5,000 direct jobs
and 36,000 indirect jobs.
 The exploitation of the potential of mineral resources must be:
rational, efficient and united to environmental conservation.
Mining Industry
INTERNATIONAL HERITAGE AND RENOWN
 More than 6,000 years of mining history.
 Even back in the fourth millennium B.C. there is record of
the extraction of copper and other metal mining.
 One of the first milestones for Andalusian mining is
recorded during Roman times with the introduction of the
first mining law: LexMetalli.

Minas de Linares

 Home to the best known mine in Europe - the Rio Tinto
mine, which gives its name to Rio Tinto Group, one of the
largest mining companies in the world.
 Currently, three sectors existing: aggregate, ornamental
stone and mineral stone. More than 600 active mining
exploitations.
INTERNATIONAL HERITAGE AND RENOWN

 In the XXI century metal mining has resurged in the Iberian
Pyrite Belt (IPB), Europe's largest deposit of polymetallic
sulphides.
 Two metal mines currently in production: Cobre las Cruces Mine
(Seville) and Aguas Teñidas Mine (Huelva), notable for their
production volume, economic impact and innovations.

Aznalcóllar
 According to the companies association AMINER:

 Investments totalling 1,300 million euros, which would amount to
2,500 million euros with the start-up of the pipeline projects.
 The turnover of the Association companies reached 700 million euros
in 2012, and it is estimated that the figure will rise to 1,300 million
euros a year with the launch of new projects.
MANAGEMENT OF MINERAL RESOURCES PLAN FOR
ANDALUCIA 2010-2013 (PORMIAN)
 The main objective of the Andalusian mining policy is "Give value to
the mining sector and highlight the existing potentials to improve
the competitiveness, productivity and employment, with
sustainability criteria”.
 Management of Mineral Resources Plan for Andalucia 2010-2013, was
approved by Governing Council, 2010.
 The specific objectives of PORMIAN PLAN are:
 Contribute to promoting and improving the competitiveness and
productivity of the Andalusian mining sector through technological
modernization, the incorporation of innovative processes and the
impetus to the incorporation of knowledge.
 Facilitate the maintenance and creation of quality employment.
 Facilitate environmental integration of mining activity.
 Spread and facilitate the knowledge of the mining sector.
 Modernize administrative management.
 Strengthen the training, qualification and safety in the mining
sector.
 4 axes, 11 lines of action and 64 actions.
PORMIAN
OBJECTIVES AXES ACTIONS
1.Contribute to promoting and improving the 1.1.Support for the creation and
competitiveness and productivity of the business modernization to the
Andalusian mining sector through technological Andalusian mining potential.
modernization, the incorporation of innovative
1.Promotion of
processes and the impetus to the incorporation of 1.2.Support I+D+I projects on
mining activity
knowledge. technologies applied to mining
through
2.Facilitate the maintenance and creation of activity.
innovation and
quality employment and the increase of the
business
added value, through the development and
development.
consolidation of the mining sector of the mineral 1.3.Support to cooperation and
raw materials with potential in Andalusia, internationalisation of the sector.
encouraging the design of new products and new
applications.
2.1.Streamlining and minimizing
the consumption of natural
resources.
3.Facilitate environmental integration of mining 2.Environmental
2.2.Restoration and
activity and ensure compatibility with other integration of
environmental re-conditioning.
activities using local resources. mining activity.
2.3.Conservation and
reassessment of Andalusian
mining resources.
4.Spread and facilitate the knowledge of the
3.1.Administrative modernization.
mining sector.
3.Modernization of
3.2.Development and updating of
public services
5.Modernize administrative management in the mining normative.
related to the
competence areas of Autonomous Community of 3.3.Improvement and spreading
mining sector.
Andalusia. of the knowledge for
management.
4.1.Offer fixes to the mining
4.Provide training,
sector needs.
qualification and
6.Strengthen the training, qualification and safety
safety at work to
in the mining sector.
4.2.Increase occupational risk
people belonging
prevention in mining.
to the sector.
PORMIAN. Main actions
 Support 176 projects of innovation and business
development with over 15 M€ of incentives, generating an
investment of over 184M€.

 Support for sustainable energy development in 70 mining-
industrial projects with a total of almost 10M€ of incentives,
which have have generated an investment of 22 M€.

 Over 20 actions for
restoration of
abandoned mines and
deposits of waste
treatment, especially in
protected natural areas
and their surroundings.

Sierra de los Filabres. Macael
PORMIAN. Main actions
 Creation of the MINING ANDALUSIAN PORTAL.
 Spain’s pioneering web platform.
 Promote and facilitate access to the mining sector
knowledge in Andalusia for more efficient management.
MINERAL RIGHTS IN ANDALUSIA