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On 24 July, at a joint session held with Mértola Municipal Council, EDM - Empresa de Desenvolvimento Mineiro, SA presented a project to rehabilitate the former mining area of São Domingos.
On July 10, 2018 at 3:00 p.m. the conference "The environmental rehabilitation of degraded mining areas: a performance review and future perspectives" will be held at the Small Auditorium of the LNEC Congress Center (Lisbon),…
The 9th Meeting of the Guide of the Portuguese Geological and Mines Sites was held in Idanha a Nova on 7 and 8 June, organised by Naturtejo, GeoPark and the local council.
EDM was invited to participate in the technical meeting organized by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) about "Remediation of Groundwater in Uranium Mining Operations".
On 25 May 2018, EDM registered its commitment to the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
EDM participated in the 2nd PhytoSUDOE Stakeholder Workshop, which was held on 17 April 2018 at the School of Biotechnology of the Portuguese Catholic University, in Porto.
EDM was present at the Portugal Smart Cities Summit 2018 which was held at the Lisbon Congress Centre on 11, 12 and 13 April with the Green Business Week subscription.
EDM participated in the Workshop "Scientific Technical and Legal Challenges of Deep Sea Mining - A Vision for Portugal" held on 16 April 2018 at the António de Almeida Foundation in Porto, under the WP-Legal…
EDM will be present at Green Business Week 2018, which will take place from 11 to 13 April at the Lisbon Congress Centre.
The Secretary of State for Energy, Jorge Seguro Sanches, stated that Portugal is "always highlighted as a very good example" in the environmental requalification of old uranium mines, a work that is carried out by…
The Week of the Partners of the Guide of the Portuguese Geological and Mines Sites in 2018 will take place between 19 and 25 March, with several unique initiatives organized by the Partners, throughout the…
EDM is present at PDAC 2018, where it has a stand with institutional presence - Stand 2.136 in SPACE INVESTORS EXCHANGE: Halls F and G - South Building.
On 12 January 2018, EDM technicians, accompanied by the President, Vice-President and technicians from Castelo de Paiva Council, travelled to the former mining area of Pejão-Germunde, in Pedorido, in order to evaluate a situation of…
Within the scope of the INTERREG GEO_FPI Project: Cross-border observatory for the geo-economic recovery of the Iberian Pyrite Belt.
EDM participated in the 7th Portuguese Association of Geologists (APG) Conference, which was held from 8 to 10 November 2017 at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto.
The EDM - Empresa de Desenvolvimento Mineiro, SA, will publish the announcement of the consultation in two national newspapers, to present the interest for the development of a program of surveying and research in the…
The EDM made a technical presentation on the topic "Environmental Rehabilitation of São Domingos Old Mining Area in the Iberian Pyrite Belt: a phased approach" at the session “Mining Techniques and Circular Economy", held at…
The Guide of the Portuguese Geological and Mines Sites, through the different platforms on which it is present, promotes the provision of the different associated sites, where educational services and activities directed at schools take…
The XXXVII CAP - Refresher Course for Teachers of Geosciences "The Teaching of Earth Sciences as an Engine for Development", promoted by the Portuguese Association of Geologists in conjunction with the University of Coimbra, by…
The European Commission issued a communication dated 13/9/2017 to the European Parliament, Council and Regional Committee, in which it presented an updated list of 27 critical raw materials (Critical Raw Materials – CRM) for the…
On 12 September, the EDM Environmental Unit went on a working visit to the site where the ongoing environmental restoration of the former mining area of Castelejo was being performed (Gouveia county) and to the…
Freiberg is an old mining town in Germany, located in the centre of Saxony, between the cities of Dresden and Chemnitz. With an approximate population of 40,000, of which 5,400 are students, it is the…
The European Mineral Resources Day 2017 will be officially opened on 21 and 22 September by the European Commission in Nordkalk, Kurevere and Kunda Nordic Tsement in Estonia. The 10th anniversary of this event is…
The UNEXMIN project, in which EDM is a partner, aims to develop three robot prototypes for 3D cartography and geological data collection in flooded underground mining explorations. Unequalled in technology and long-range planning capacity, it…
In the area known as Escádia Grande, where EDM holds prospecting and exploration rights, on 11 July, an initial survey was carried out to investigate the potential of gold mineralization in the mine, which operated…
EDM – Empresa de Desenvolvimento Mineiro, SA, has just published in two widely circulated national newspapers an announcement of an informal market consultation for the implementation of photovoltaic plant projects in rehabilitated mining areas. The…
The EDM – Empresa de Desenvolvimento Mineiro, SA, has just launched the tendering procedure for the contracted remediation of the former uranium exploration area of Mondego Sul in Tábua, a project supported by POSEUR that…
On 9 June 2017, EDM presented the second phase of the environmental reclamation works at the São Domingos mine, which took place at the São Domingos mine on the occasion of the Annual Meeting of…
The Annual Meeting of Partners of the Guide of the Portuguese Geological and Mines Sites was held in the São Domingos mine on 8 and 9 June 2017. This meeting brought together representatives of the…
The “Lithium” Working Group report, created by Order No. 15040/2016 of the Secretary of State for Energy, published in the DR, 2nd Series, dated 13 December 2016, and which the EDM has integrated, can be…
On 8 and 9 June, the Annual Meeting of Partners of the Guide of the Portuguese Geological and Mines Sites, which is exclusively for the participation of the Partners, will be held at the Star…
On 26 May 2017, EDM – Empresa de Desenvolvimento Mineiro, SA, assigned the works contract to Conduril Engenharia, SA, which is the start of the first phase of the environmental reclamation works in the São…
On 8 May, EDM – Empresa de Desenvolvimento Mineiro, SA attended the 2017 Annual Event of the Portugal 2020 Operational Programme Management Authorities on “On the Way to Portugal 2020 – Funding Outcomes and Opportunities”,…
The Secretary of State for Energy, Jorge Seguro Sanches, appointed Mário Jorge Ferreira Guedes as substitute for the post of Director General of Energy and Geology, replacing Carlos de Almeida, who left office on 11…
In an interview with Antena 1, on the Portugal Direct programme of 6 April, the Chairman of EDM, Rui Rodrigues, highlighted the work carried out in the field of environmental remediation of degraded and abandoned…
The Directorate-General of Energy and Geology, in partnership with EDM – Empresa de Desenvolvimento Mineiro and more than three dozen other entities, is promoting, until 9 April, mining and geological heritage around the mainland and…
Lousal Living Science Centre is organizing an event on 8 and 9 April, as part of Partners of the Mining Trail Week, which invites visitors to discover the former mining area of Lousal and the…
EDM – Empresa de Desenvolvimento Mineiro, SA presented, on 25 March, a project to recover the former uranium mines of Mondego Sul, in the district of Coimbra. The ceremony, which was chaired by the Secretary…
On Friday, 17 March 2017, the Secretary of State for Energy, Jorge Seguro Sanches, visited Green Business Week and attended the EDM stand. Green Business Week is an event focusing on the challenges of sustainability…
EDM – Empresa de Desenvolvimento Mineiro, SA will be present, from 15 to 17 March, at Green Business Week, which will be held at the Lisbon Congress Centre. It is an event focusing on the…
APG Day – 9th Annual Meeting will be held on 24 March 2017 at the LNEC – National Laboratory of Civil Engineering (Lisbon). Under the scope of this event, a tribute will be paid to…
Portugal was present at the International Summit of Ministers of the Mining Sector in 2017, which took place on 6 March, in Toronto. The Secretary of State for Energy, Jorge Seguro Sanches, was one of…
The former Lousal mine has become one of the 20 knowledge tourism centres launched by Ciência Viva and Vodafone. Closed in 1988, the pyrites mine is now one of the sights in a tourist attraction,…
On 21 January, in Gouveia, EDM – Empresa de Desenvolvimento Mineiro, SA assigned a contract to Conduril, SA for the environmental rehabilitation of the abandoned former mining areas of Castelejo, Formiga and Vale de Videira,…
On 12 January 2017, the Government approved, through the Council of Ministers, the draft renewal of the concession contract between the Portuguese State and EDM – Empresa de Desenvolvimento Mineiro for the pursuit of environmental…
On 7 January, EDM – Empresa de Desenvolvimento Mineiro, SA awarded Conduril Engenharia, SA the first phase of the environmental recovery works at the São Domingos former mining area in the municipality of Mértola, for…
The Secretary of State for Social Security, Cláudia Joaquim, presided over a formal session marking the conclusion of the environmental remediation project of the Velha Dam, Urgeiriça, on 14 April 2008. During the event, which…
EDM – Empresa de Desenvolvimento Mineiro, SA is participating in a Working Group, established by the Secretary of State for Energy, Jorge Seguro Sanches on 30 November, to identify and delineate occurrences of lithium deposits…
On 23 October, EDM signed a prospection and research agreement with the Portuguese State for the area known as “Rosário”, falling under the municipalities of Castro Verde, Aljustrel, Almodôvar and Ourique, where an initial investment…
On 7 October 2016, beginning at eleven o’clock at Mangualde Town Hall, a public meeting was held to discuss the assignment to the local community of areas around the former, recently recovered mines. In the…
On 23 September, EDM – Empresa de Desenvolvimento Mineiro concludes another stage of the environmental rehabilitation of former Urgeiriça uranium mine, where operations were discontinued in 1999, with the opening of a modern recreation and…
EDM – Empresa de Desenvolvimento Mineiro, SA has launched a tendering procedure for the first phase of environmental rehabilitation works at S. Domingos mine. It is a project involving a total investment of around 20…
EDM – Empresa de Desenvolvimento Mineiro, SA elected new governing bodies for the term 2016-2018 on 22 June 2016. The company’s board of directors is now chaired by Rui da Silva Rodrigues, with Mário Jorge…
EDM – Empresa de Desenvolvimento Mineiro, SA participates in the UNEXMIN project, which aims to develop three robot prototypes for 3D mapping and the collection of geodata in flooded underground mines. Unequalled in technology and…
The Map of Mines and Points of Mining and Geological Interest of Portugal presented today at the BTL – Tourism Fair of Lisbon a new digital platform that brings together more than three dozen partners…
EDM – Empresa de Desenvolvimento Mineiro and ESAN, a company belonging to the Eczacibasi Group, today signed an agreement that will ensure an investment of 7.6 million euros in prospection and research activities over the…
Under Resolution of the Council of Ministers of 21/09/2015, the renewal of the Concession Contract for the pursuit of environmental recovery of degraded mining areas is authorized for a further seven years.
With a view to establishing a partnership for the development of prospecting and metal mineral deposit research activities in three areas located in the Iberian Pyrite Belt in Alentejo – Monte das Mesas, Alcácer and…
On 12 March 2015, at Guarda City Council, the certificate of transfer of the contract for environmental remediation works in the mining areas of Prado Velho, Forte Velho and the former Barracão Radium Factory was…
Under the Horizon 2020 programme Portugal participates in pioneering €12.6M project for the underwater exploration of terrestrial mines INESC TEC, Minerália and EDM are the three Portuguese partners in this European project. Under the Horizon…