Prospecting spots “divide” country in the north and in the Alentejo. Prospecting and research areas of mineral deposits, marked, cut the country in two different regions.
North, with a track, To paint Trás-os-Montes, from the border with Spain to the Douro River; a roll, Two parallel diagonal lines scratch the Alentejo, one from Sines to the streak in the municipality of Mértola and another from Cercal to the border in Castro Marim, no Algarve.
Are the most significant of 21 Prospecting and research contracts in force, According to the Portal of the General Directorate of Energy and Geology (DGEG). There is yet another area, in Guarda and Viseu districts, Very visible on the map, as 43,19 square kilometers, which adds small concessions in the district of Aveiro, Coimbra, Montemor-o-Velho and Pombal.
Two of these concessions for prospecting were assigned to almina – Minas do Alentejo SA: Albernoa, with 369 km2 and that surrounds Beja, and Mértola, 499,45 km2, to dawn the maximum legal limit of 500 km2, around the city and county with the same name. Both for lead research, copper, tin, gold, talk, associated zinc and minerals.
In response to JN, Almina reported that “No works are done in the cities or urban areas”. Maintaining that the project is still “in a very preliminary phase of prospecting ”, It admits that “several years of work will be held to evaluate the viability of exploitation.”
