Mining operations have caused continuous heavy metal pollution for over a century, compromissing the integrity of the Zêzere river,...
After open-pit mining between 1974 and 1987, the mine was abandoned without restoration and used for waste processing and disposal. The mine...
This gold, silver and copper mine began open-pit mining in 1996-1997, subsequently mining underground and processing material from other...
This mine was authorised despite exploiting a deposit that lies beneath an aquifer that was considered as a strategic emergency reserve for...
This open-pit nickel-copper mine operated between 2005 and 2015, causing heavy metal pollution in the Rivera del Cala river. Permits for an...
The project intends to transform an innactive quarry concession into a open-pit lithium mine affecting a large area in the Barroso region....
The mine operated from 1903 to 1985, when it was abandoned without restoration. Concessions were terminated in 1993 and the area designated...
The Riotinto mines have been intensively exploited during the past 150 years, depleting many deposits and severely polluting the Tinto and...
After the (foretold) catastrophe caused by the tailings dam failure in 1998, the mine was closed in 2001. In February 2015, the...
MINOB at the National Meeting for Climate Justice 2024
Case studies presentation in Covas do Barroso
European Launch of the Iberian Mining Observatory
Website launch of the Iberian Mining Observatory
Seminar on 'Cartographies of Extractivist Violence'
Creation of the Iberian Mining Observatory is announced in the Congress of Deputies
