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Acciona offers zero cost regenerate Portman Iron to change the sterile (24/06/2013)

A new project on the table to regenerate Portman and-perhaps-the most ambitious and most likely to succeed in nature.

Twenty years after the multinational Penyarroya sterile pouring ended the Bay, considered one of the most beautiful in the Mediterranean, there is a new proposal to remove mineral deposits.

The difference is that now part of the initiative is not public but private.

Specifically, a Joint Venture (JV) formed by the Spanish Acciona and Aria mining multinational, based in Hamburg.

The request and the draft were recorded Friday at the Directorate General of Industry, Energy and Mines of the Autonomous Community and the Department of Sustainability of the Coast and the Sea, Ministry of Environment.

In short, what the UTE is asking the Ministry to grant a dispensation to dredge much of the barren, dry, extract iron ore from tailings contain and transport to Asian markets.

Thus, in a period of five years, the bay recover almost 80% the 1957 waterfront.

And at no cost to the battered public finances.

Aria drive has been developed in recent months intensive fieldwork in the bay itself.

A electrical tomography to distinguish the iron ore content at different depths, and surveys have continued tastings.

The conclusion reached, according to the analyzes performed during this time more than 20 tonnes of waste is that it is profitable to extract magnetite and siderite containing.

Magnetite, with 72%, is the metal ore more of iron, above siderite and pyrite.

According to studies conducted by the joint venture, the purity and quantity containing sterile enough to laborearlos and sell in Asian markets, they need raw material even outside their territories to sustain its economic growth.

Within the joint venture, according to the draft, Aria "is responsible for funding" and Acciona of "dredging execution".

The mining company is responsible also for "the treatment plant, the production and distribution of iron concentrate in international markets."

The ore transportation, "by truck to the port of tailings', run by the Spanish company.

The proposal estimated operating over five years, to recover a total 12.5 million tonnes of waste.

If the setback on the beach was 250 meters in the last project shuffled by the Ministry, now would almost 700 meters in 1957, except for a strip northeast of the bay (20% of total), that was sealed as a green area.

In terms of economic viability, the preliminary believes that "assuming a dredging of 4.8 million cubic meters of net mineral five years, the price of iron could be worth between 55 and 60 million euros", if recovered magnetite 60% of law.

Should also recovered "a salable product of siderite" 38-42% of law, the figure could rise to "60-66 million".

On costs, "contemplates a run estimated initial investment material between 15 and 20 million euros" and operation "would be around between 15 and 20 million euros per year," according to the complexity of the treatment plant .

This facility, once dried tailings through a system of electromagnets, iron ore retain and prepare for transport to major shippers docked in tailings.

Once you have completed the application, the joint venture is set for presenting the final draft operating in July.

Between August and September, the authorities consult with the implementation of the project and articulate execution.

In October, we present the detailed engineering and in January 2014 would be expected, "the beginning of the work, with an estimated creation of 400 or 500 jobs."

The official request to Acciona-Aria granting an administrative concession for the exploitation of mining waste Portman Bay has been the point and followed by a first phase of the joint venture talks between the City of La Union, the General of Industry, Energy and Mines of the Autonomous Community, and various agencies of the Ministry of Environment.

This opens a contest

The details before submitting the bill to be finalized in the last week in Madrid, in bilateral and multilateral meetings.

Participated in all the mayor of La Union, Francisco Bernabé, who has announced that, despite "the seriousness and viability" that transmit the representatives of the joint venture, "the Ministry has decided to open a competition free competition franchising ".

This means that the request of Acciona UTE-Aria will be taken into account, "of course, but within an open call to other interested parties," said Barnabas.

In fact, the mayor acknowledged that an external consultant "is conducting tastings in the Bay to offer this business opportunity to other investors."

The director of the Coastal State in the region, Andres Martinez, confirmed this and said "both before and now this consultant Acciona have requested the relevant permissions."

'The Truth' found this week in the bay itself being carried out work tasting.

According to Barnabas, the intention of the Ministry is to accelerate the procedures for the award can be bid "soon", but, he added, "no matter how fast you go, the work would not begin until well into 2014."

In this project succeed, Barnabas finds that "would also have a preview of work and saving money for the future concession near port".

Reeves Penyarroya not iron

From July 1957 to March 1990, not Reeves Penyarroya-iron, but focused on lead and zinc-poured nearly 50 million tons of mine waste into the sea.

The current sludge led to the bay and caused was gradually silting.

In total, fell on sterile eight square kilometers of the continental shelf to a depth of 150 meters.

The most startling snapshot of those years was the modification of the coastline, which walked away.

Forever discharges were authorized by the state.

Even the European Union concluded in 2003, referring to the potential liability of Portman Golf, the company that acquired the properties and concessions to Penyarroya, that from the legal point of view it was "a spill old, at that Community law does not apply and there is therefore infringement.

Source: Ayuntamiento de La Unión

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