Allied Vital Metals has secured a beneficial environmental impression declaration from the Portuguese Setting Company for its totally owned Borralha Tungsten Challenge in northern Portugal.
The declaration is topic to straightforward regulatory circumstances (Declaração de Impacte Ambiental Favorável Condicionada – DIA).
This regulatory approval marks a serious step, enabling the mission to advance to the Challenge of Execution and RECAPE (Environmental Compliance Report of the Execution Challenge) stage, together with subsequent licensing phases as outlined by Portuguese environmental rules.
Allied Vital Metals CEO Roy Bonnell stated: “The issuance of the Environmental Affect Declaration for the Borralha mission represents an essential regulatory milestone for Allied.
“This approval displays the standard of the technical and environmental work accomplished up to now and permits the corporate to advance the Borralha mission into the subsequent stage of allowing and detailed engineering, topic to compliance with the circumstances set out by the Portuguese authorities.”
The Borralha Tungsten Challenge is designed as a contemporary underground mining operation.
This brownfield mission has a historic manufacturing file from its northern part, the place greater than 10,280 tonnes (t) of wolframite focus have been extracted between 1904 and 1985. The focus had a mean grade of 66% tungsten trioxide.
The environmental impression declaration, based mostly on which the DIA resolution was made, evaluated various elements together with social, cultural and ecological impacts.
It instructed measures resembling underground mining methods to restrict floor disruption, rehabilitation plans for historic mining websites and safety methods for water assets.
The declaration consists of measures resembling closed-loop water administration, dry-stacked tailings and environmental monitoring plans to mitigate impacts.
The mission aligns with the EU Vital Uncooked Supplies Act, which goals to diversify provide sources for vital industrial and defence sectors inside the EU.
Along with securing the DIA, Allied Vital Metals has acquired a letter of recognition from idD Portugal Protection.
This acknowledgment highlights Allied Vital Metals’s position in revitalising tungsten manufacturing in Portugal and underscores the mission’s strategic significance for each nationwide and European defence provide chains.
Positioned in Montalegre’s Parish of Salto close to Borralha village, the mission is predicted to stimulate regional employment and financial exercise by native procurement initiatives and long-term investments.
