What was an old, already closed mine, contains one of the most promising deposits of strategic minerals in Salamanca. This is why an additional investment of about 700,000 euros will receive it until the end of this year, which will give way to three years of investigations in search of the great lithium reefs believed by an Australian company. The injection will raise about three million euros what ETM has spent in this great project within the municipality of Villasrubias.
This advertisement comes in the midst of high expectations for new mining projects concentrated in the West and South SalamanaThese cross -extracted lands, in which Europe has placed hopes to be sovereign in extracting raw materials needed for new technologies and electrical mobility. The supposed work that caused interest in investigating what was supposed to have a long time, that the southwestern Salama maintains part of these materials.
The company’s energy transmission metals in October 2022 began exploration in a wide mining tape in Villasrubias. The research permit was originally granted in 2019 to the Association of Mining and Exploitation at Castilla Y León SA (SIEMCALSA), which is an entity sponsored by Junta de Castilla Y León, and in 2022, the Australian company took with it by its commitment to investing $ 3 million in land achieving.
A few weeks ago, the company informed that a new round of holes had given important results in the presence of lithium in deposits. This was consequences.
According to the report of the shareholders published at the end of March for the company, EMT will invest as of October 2025, at a value of $ 710,000 in the project to complete the committed budget. At the same time, in May, you will request a new three -year research permit with the aim of exploiting future mining, which will be the next step to work.
An old mine with possibilities
The research activity started at the end of 2022 after a visit from the responsible company. According to the company’s plans, a magnetic and electromagnetic air study with drones, which is a very low electromagnetic tomography study, along with geological maps drawing, to know the site completely.
The concession covers an area of 11.4 km2 located in the municipality of Velcorubia, Roubleda, Benaparda and Venegoyaldo, all of them inside the province of Salama, and in an area that was already exploited until the 1940s.
According to the license, the resources of lithium, tin, tentalium and niobium are searching for the bottom mine, a group of trenches and dug larger than about 6 meters, along with an exhibition, which has been occupied since then.
In June 2023, this Australian company announced that I found a High -quality lithium reefs In the first studies of the exploitation of a site for this mineral in this city in southern Salama. According to the company’s statement, the founded lithium was high quality and a high density of critical metals such as tin and tantal in almost all wells that were opened.
A few weeks ago, the company reported about 21 pierced about 3000 meters in the deposit, in the municipality of Villasrubias. What was found is lithium, Tantalos and Tin, three strategic minerals that Europe aspires. This result confirmed the capabilities of the site, which achieved only about 10 % of the region, to extract my future in this sector. For this reason, he plans to request the extension of the three investigation permit.
This site is in a major moment. Southwest of the province is located, a neighbor of farms and other research projects looking for lithium and other minerals that Europe considers a strategy. The choice of seven projects to support it by the European Commission means a rush to this activity, which lives in a new golden age in the province, restoring old exploitation and abandoned mines that become interesting again.
