Samario, Europio, Toulio, Lotycio … It seems that the list of kings of the Goth … The global geopolitical of its importance in manufacturing technological and defensive products, from electric car batteries to drone. Trump put them in a focus today with his proposal to help Zelinski in the war against Russia in exchange for reaching the deposits of these minerals on Ukrainian soil. Greenland wants to annex it with mineral wealth on the island, including rare land. Parallel to Europe is desperately seeking to reduce its dependence on China, which controls 70 % of global production, with farms motive in its territory, including in Spain.
Here, in this Crusader campaign of political and economic interests, views are directed towards a fertile agricultural area in La Manshha, Montil field, in the Ciudad Real County, rich in grain, olive groves and strategic dignity of maximum interest.
“Newmium is an element used to manufacture a very strong magnet. Manuel Regewiro, former head of the official college of geology and technical advisor to the Higher Center for Scientific Research (CSIC), explains that all wind turbines carry noodimium, just like most of the electronic teams.
The Jews are estimated that the Montel field can be extracted about two thousand tons annually from nuclem (at a value ranging between 100 and 150 million euros), making Spain the main product of this rare land in the European Union. With this quantity, 350,000 electric cars can be manufactured or 10,000 wind births.
390,000
The rare land ton
In 2024, the global production of rare land was 390,000 tons, but estimated reserves exceed 90 million tons
China is in the head
It is the main productive country with 270,000 tons in 2024. It is followed by the remote United States (45,000) and Burma (31000).
Rare Earth uses
Rare land is 17 chemical and basic elements for the manufacture of electronic devices, renewable energy and military technology.
In Spain
There are rare lands in Galicia (Pontvidra), Canary Islands (Fortivura), and Castilla Y.
the government
In the same week, the Ministry of Environmental Transition has opened a plan to find critical metals and rare lands and does not depend on the third countries.
This is an interest QuantityA Spanish company headed by businessman Javier Mirino – known for the spoon paper for being a husband from Mar Flores – who raised neighbors and farmers in the region, who seem to live – or “suffering”, as they keep – with a kind of “déjà vu”.
This is nearly a decade ago, Mirino has already planned an outdoor extraction sentence in the same area, but the project, which also launched a huge social answer, did not exceed environmental procedures, and in 2017, it was rejected by Junta de Castilla-La Mancha, as is now, by Emiliano García-Page.
The mining company has appealed and the Supreme Court of Justice in that community in 2021 applied the regional government’s decision, based on the “biological diversity attack” to exploit mining, taking into account that it was aimed at developing in an environmental corridor where protected species live, such as the imperial eagle, different birds and lynx. High water needs were also placed on the table in an area where there is no drop.
Then it was Citizen platform yes to living landsWho brought the sound of singing in mobilizing the neighborhood until the project was knocking. But Mirino did not give up the beginning of 2023 submitted to the regional government a new plan (this investigation, not direct exploitation), which once again launched the war on 23 cities in Montel Campo (about 50,000 people).
The project, which intends to quantity as niudmium (the name of the rare land that will be extracted from the MANCHEGO sub -soil) on about nine thousand hectares of three municipal terms, and Valdepeñas (31,000 population). Quantum proposes to create a series of tastes on the ground (about 400 at a depth ranging from 2 to 5 meters) to ensure that the materials they are looking for and then stimulate the exploitation stage, which will need new permits.
In some way, the story is repeated, although this time maintains a low decrease without the desire to make a lot of noise and refers to the Spanish group of strategic/critical raw materials (GEMPE), which is a “research tank”, which enhances mining research. The coach, Jose Antonio Suite de Santamaria, confirms that it is “a great opportunity for development and a good economic personality.”
Raquel López, Farmer and Platform Speaker Yes to Live Earth
“The mine represents a threat to our way of life, our natural environment, our quality products, and above all, for our health.”
On the contrary, he thinks yes to the living land, which reactivated its protests, realizing that the air may change this time and there is more pressure in the environment for the context of the Ukraine war. “We are again in El Leva,” Rakil Lopez, farmer and platform spokesman.
As in the past, the ball is now in the Garcia government a page, which has not yet taken a decision awaiting the study of allegations submitted to the research project by 17 entities, including many environmental organizations, or the Castilla-La Mancha Water or three affected municipalities. Two of them (Santa Cruz de Modella and Tornevia, which is ruled by PP and PSOE, respectively), rejected the mine, while the Valdinas mayor for 22 years, Jesus, the socialist Jesus, avoids Martin Rodriguez, who was evident against him in the past, to avoid warmth so that he does not kill the previous consulting painting.
Discussions violating the mine in the agricultural exploitation of the region. An olive orchard in the municipality of Santa Cruise de Modella, one of the three villages where the research project is located. One of the farmers collects the Earth in the place where quantum mining wants to conduct a study.
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The regional government knows the sensitive issue of this issue and it was a long year without judging the first allegations. In a written statement to this newspaper, the Minister of Sustainable Development, Mercedes Gomez, says they are continuing to collect technical reports “to evaluate an environmentally if the investigation project will be implemented”, and it slips that the possibility of raw materials “is always good news if they manage the environmental legislation of Kustla La Mancha”.
Raquel López is clear: «The painting should be brave and stance against. You should protect people, not the company. We ask you to defend our environment and agricultural food products, especially our health. “
“I want to live in the field.”
Lopez, a 57 -year -old language scientist, after completing the university to become a farmer in his city in Castellar de Santiago, at Campo de Montiel, called us in a place in the municipality of Santa Cruz de Modella referred to on the map as one of the mining places. We step fertile land, but a few meters away from the gray Monassita, the minerals with noodimium are hidden and that the spokeswoman for exploitation sees a “threat” of the area of the region, associated with nature, rural tourism and products with an automatic sect such as olive oil, Manchesho, wine or lamb. “All this is all that it costs will jump in the air,” said Rakelil, while Ottia was a green horizon grown with olive trees, almonds, Xx Holm, Chrome chrome and grains such as barley, wheat and oats that start with generous rain this week.
“But the most important,” the activist warns, “It is the threat of health through radioactive emissions when extracting minerals. There is no money to pay them.
However, the geologists Regeiro and Sanz de Santamaria, Professor Ricardo Brigo, Chemical for the Marine Research Institute (CSIC) and an expert in rare land, “see” non -relevant “” harmless “or” very small “the amount of radiological elements that should be harmful.
Raquel Miguel Fuentes, 62, is accompanied by Angel Deljado, 32, and a farmers. The Angel left his job in a mechanical workshop in Valdipinas to care for family exploitation (grains and olive trees) after his father retires. He could have continued with his fixed salary in the workshop, but he chose this field. “I want to live from agriculture and cancel it does not correspond to this model of life. When they say that we have a treasure under our feet, this is true, but not through Monassite, but because this land is the one that feeds us, “as he says in a quiet tone that contradicts the anger of Miguel Al -Bakhil. Not to mention the water that this project will require when every drop is as if it was golden. supermarket? Me, no”.
