Escenarios
The main Escenario of SUBproducts4LIFE is La Soterraña, an abandoned mine in the Principality of Asturias. The second pilot zone is El Terronal.
La Soterraña
The main SUBProducts4LIFE site “La Soterraña” is an abandoned mine (mined by mountain mine methods, without vertical shaft) and industrial area in the North of Spain. Asturias is a region where in the present inventory of contaminated soils, 9 of the 12 listed contaminated soils are waste deposits with high arsenic and mercury content, and two other locations are industrial areas with high arsenic content.
El Terronal
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.
