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Mining News Pro - One-hundred-twenty-five playwrights, writers, poets, painters, photographers and naturalists joined their voices in a book titled Heaven, open up, to express their opposition to the Valtreixal open-pit mine project, owned by Canada’s Almonty Industries.
Valtreixal is a tin-tungsten project located near the village of Calabor in northwestern Spain, close to the border with Portugal and approximately 250 kilometres from Almonty’s Los Santos tungsten mine.
Permitting for the project is ongoing, although slowed down by the covid-19 pandemic. According to the company, a three-month delay is expected in the permitting process.
Valtreixal is described as a low-operational cost project with an extremely high tin content (30%), where proven and probable reserves have been estimated at 2.54 million tonnes at an average WO3 grade of 0.34% for 8,667 tonnes of contained WO3.
But the mine’s location has sparked reaction from artists and environmentalists, who have expressed concern about the fact that the Calabor river, which flows into the Sabor river in Portugal, is within the project area.
The source of the Calabor river is on the Sierra de la Culebra (Snake’s Mountain Range) special conservation area, which is close to Valtreixal, as is the Montesinho natural park on the Portuguese side.
“If this project, which is expected for 2021, goes ahead, the Sierra de la Culebra ecosystem will be endangered (the most important habitat for the Iberian wolf), as will be the ecosystem in the neighbouring Portuguese lands,” the online presentation of Heaven, open up reads. “Water pollution caused by the mineral exploitation will impact the Calabor river, which flows into the Sabor river (Portugal) and which provides freshwater to the city of Bragança. On top of this, the mine will severely damage the area’s sustainable development, which is based on tourism.”
The 246-page book, edited by playwright Julio Fernández was published this week and it includes manifestos, essays, short stories, dialogues, poems, photos and visual poems.
Among those contributing to the book are naturalist Joaquín Araújo, Guatemalan indigenous leader Aura Lolita Chávez, Spain’s National Poetry Award winner Juan Carlos Mestre, Portuguese poet Fernando Cabrita, and playwrights Jorge Palinhos and Isabel Fernandes Pinto.
Proceeds from book sales are expected to be used to fund actions against the approval of the Valtreixal project.
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