Strategic Minerals Spain
Acronym: SMS
General Information
Identification Code: 725915743007-72
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Entity Form: S.L.U
Registration Category: Companies & groups
Registration Date: 6/3/2021
Last Update: 4/30/2024
EP Accredited Number: 0
Mission & Interests
Goals: Strategic Minerals Spain is a Spanish mining company, focused on the development of long-term Mining Projects, using a modern and sustainable mining, and at the same time being responsible for the society and the environment.
The company was incorporated in 2011 and operates the only active Tantalum and Niobium mine in Europe since the end of 2017, the Penouta mine, in Spain, after 6 years of intensive mining research.
With this project, the company tries to respond to the need to reduce imports of these raw materials to the EU, through the direct production of Sn, Ta and Nb concentrates from the reprocessing of abandoned mining waste and, in the medium term, by exploiting the bedrock that still contains large amounts of these metals and minerals
https://www.strategicminerals.com/en/sustainability/our-company/
Interests Represented: Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Interests:
- Business and industry
- Climate action
- Environment
- Research and innovation
Levels of Interest:
- national
Activities
Main EU Legislative Proposals: EIP on Raw Materials
European Raw Materials Alliance
EIT Raw Materials
Critical Raw Materials
Green Deal
Conflict Minerals Regulation
Communication Activities: Presentation of the Penouta mine project at the Workshop "Re-mining of Mining Waste for Critical Raw Materials", organized by the Operational Group of EIP Raw Materials (DG Grow), in Brussels in May 2018.
Participation in the preparation of the 2019 JRC Science for Policy Report (Recovery of critical and other raw materials from mining waste and landrills. State of play on existing practices), with the writing of its own chapter on the recovery of Sn, Ta and Nb of mining waste at the Penouta mine. (https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC116131)
Since December 2020 Strategic Minerlas Spain is a partner of ERMA (European Raw Materials Alliance)
Currently working as Project Partner in the TARANTULA H2020 project (Grant Agreement No 821159 - https://h2020-tarantula.eu)
“Recovery of Tungsten, Niobium and Tantalum occurring as by-products in mining and processing waste streams” (TARANTULA) Call: CE-SC5- 06-2018 - New technologies for the enhanced recovery of by-products.
TARANTULA will develop a suite of cost-effective, scalable and eco-friendly – bio-, hydro-, iono-, solvo-, pyro and electro-metallurgical – processes with high selectivity and recovery rates towards new routes for market ready metals, metal oxides and metal carbides.
Since June 2021, the company has been selected as a member of the DG Grow governance group of EIP on Raw Materials
EU Supported Forums and Platforms: Commission operational expert group of the European Innovation Partnership on Raw Materials #E03392#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=3392 #MEMBER #C#SMEs
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: N/A
Head Office
Address: Mina de Penouta, Ctra. Ou-0901 Km 14
Post Code: 32558
City: Penouta (Viana do Bolo) Orense
Country: SPAIN
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EU Office
Address: Mina de Penouta, Ctra. Ou-0901 Km 14
Post Code: 32558
City: Penouta (Viana do Bolo) Orense
Country: SPAIN
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Financial Data
New Organisation: false
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Complementary Information: H2020 TARANTULA: Es un proyecto concedido en 2019, que actualmente se encuentra en su fase final, destinado al estudio de investigación de materias primas estratégicas.
Membership Information
Members10 Percent: 0
Members25 Percent: 1
Members50 Percent: 0
Members75 Percent: 0
Members: 1
Members F T E: 0.25
Structure
Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: https://www.strategicminerals.com/en/the-company/directorate/
Organisation Members: ERMA https://erma.eu/network/
CONFEDEM http://confedem.com/afiliados
COMMISSION OPERATIONAL EXPERT GROUP OF THE EUROPEAN INNOVATION PARTNERSHIP ON RAW MATERIALS (https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=3392)