The Canadian company Emerita Resources incorporated the Sevillian company Antonio Escribano to the industrial project management team Western Iberian Belt which is currently underway and which continues the extraction of gold in the Andévalo region of Huelva. This professional is from … Savener Engineering of which he has been commercial director for five years.
Escribano himself shared the news through his profile on the social network Linkedin in which he commented: “I am joining Emerita Resources, a Canadian mining company, as Director of Infrastructure, Energy and Logistics, to work on the development of the Iberian Belt West (IBW) project. The IBW is destined to become one of the most important mining projects in Europefor its scale, the quality of its resources and, above all, for its commitment to modern and responsible mining, based on advanced metallurgical studies and cutting-edge geophysical campaigns.
It has been more than three years since this mining company He reported finding high-grade gold and silver in the La Romanera mine, which is located in the municipality of Paymogo, in the Huelva pyrite belt. The discovery of precious metals took place during the first prospections that the company carried out in this exploitation in the western region of Andévalo.
La Romanera is the largest deposit in the Iberian Belt West (IBW) mineral exploration permit, owned by Emerita. in the municipalities of Puebla de Guzmán and Paymogo, in the province of Huelva. The company obtained mining rights in 2020 and plans an investment of 350 million euros.
Emerita closes the Aznalcóllar chapter
If all the permits are obtained, it will be the most important operation of the Canadian company, which has definitively renounced its claims to the Aznalcóllar mine. The operation had been awarded in a public tender to the joint venture formed by Grupo México and Magtel, but the company took the procedure to court when it realized that it had not been clean. Only a few weeks ago, the High Court of Justice of Andalusia handed down a judgment finding in favor of the Council and the successful bidders and ordering Emerita to pay the costs.
After this legal blow, the company expressed its intention to focus on the Huelva project and turn the page on the Seville copper mine.