El Terronal
The secondary location for SUBproducts4LIFE is El Terronal.
It is an abandoned mercury mine located in Mieres council.
The location
- Location: Mieres, Asturias, Spain
- Pilot Cases: 3b
- Main Pollutants: Arsenic and Mercury
- Area to improve (directly): 200 m2
- Area to improve (indirectly): 17.000 m2
The SUBProducts4LIFE site “El Terronal” is the secondary location of the project area; it is abandoned mercury mine located in Mieres council, owned by Asturbelga de Minas, SL, (stakeholder). They owned also former mining facilities and 8 mine deposits in the same area. A replication of pilot case 3 will be implemented in this area (case 3b). New techniques tested in La Soterraña will be validated in a pilot area of 200 m2.
The
secondary site
El Terronal
El Terronal is
an abandoned mercury mine
located in Mieres council
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LIFE Programme
The LIFE programme is the EU’s funding instrument for the environment and climate action. The general objective of LIFE is to contribute to the implementation, updating and development of EU environmental and climate policy and legislation by co-financing projects with European added value.
The European Commission (DG Environment and DG Climate Action) manages the LIFE programme. The Commission has delegated the implementation of many components of the LIFE programme to the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME). External selection, monitoring and communication teams provide assistance to the Commission and EASME.
