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· Turning coal mines in the region of Asturias in Spain to sources of geothermal heating and cooling. Alexander Richter. 11 months ago New facilities at abandoned coal mines in the region of Asturias in Northwestern Spain are to bring geothermal heating and cooling to a hospital and research building of a university.
· Almost all of Spain's remaining coal mines, concentrated in the four provinces of Asturias, Palencia, Teruel and León, closed in December 2018. They were followed in July 2020 by the thermal power stations that until then had been burning coal. Both closures, the result of a historic agreement between the government, employers and trade unions, will mean the disappearance of about 6,700 ...
· Spain's coal industry employed more than 100,000 workers in the 1960s before the country began importing most of its coal. The country had 167 operating mines as recently as 1990.
Coal mine employment has shrunk from 45,000 in 1990 to about 1,700 today. With mining highly concentrated in just a few towns and regions, however, the transition has led to economic distress. Spain's 2019 Just Transition Strategy, part of a larger decarbonization effort, outlines a structured, participatory process to protect coal miners (and power plant workers) and plan for the economic ...
· Spain's dying coal industry: Brilliant documentary photos by David Ramos. In the 1960s, Spain had more than 100,000 coal miners. Nowadays there are fewer than 3,000.
· Spain's coal miners continue to wait for their country's 'Green New Deal'. The San Nicolas mine in Spain's northern region of Asturias is the last working coal mine in all of Spain. At its peak ...
Spain has one of Europe's most diverse mining industries, which produces most of the industrial minerals. Owing to the gold reserve discoveries at the El ValleBoinas and Carles deposits in northern Spain, highly prospective geology, and the Rio Narcea Belt, .
· This article looks at mining investment, the legal system applicable to mining, various mining laws, mineral ownership in, different types of mining tenements available, rights of miners to access land against landowners' rights, imposition of royalties and other taxes by the various levels of government, and rules and restrictions concerning foreign investment in Spain.
· During the last decades, the Asturian Central Coal Basin (ACCB) has been a highly exploited coal mining area by means of underground mining and its network of tunnels extend among more than 30 mines. Parts of this infrastructure will soon become available for alternative uses since most of the coal mining facilities in Spain will fade out in 2018. Increasing penetration of renewable energy ...
· Most of Spain's coal mines will be permanently shut down by the end of the year, thanks to the Socialistled coalition government settling on a 250 million euro agreement with the trade unions. This money will be invested in the mining regions over the next decade for job creation, along with generous severance, earlyretirement for miners over 48, and reeduion packages for miners to ...
Come January 1, all unprofitable coal mines in the European Union will be shut down. In Spain, that means 26 new closures.
Spain guarantees a just transition for miners. A pact between the social partners and the Spanish government provides for €250 million to be invested in mining communities, as the country's coalmines shut down in the near future. The transition deal between ETUC affiliates, UGT and USO, and the National Federation of Coal Mining ...
Major coal mining operations began with Carbones de Berga SA. The most widespread system for exploiting coal was through the use of galleries. From the middle of the nineteenth century until 1965, work was characterised by its danger and by the fact that it was basically manual. Maximum production was reached in the 1960s but it was not until 1965 that mining operations were mechanised ...
· Coal provided over % of all the country's energy needs in 2015. Coal mining was quite active during the Spanish Civil War, and the union miners suffered a 15day siege in Gijon and Oviedo in October 1934. Spain has dedied a museum to coal mining, known as Cercs Mine Museum. The museum was established in 1999 in Sant Corneli colony, Cercs.
· New facilities at abandoned coal mines in the region of Asturias in Northwestern Spain are to bring geothermal heating and cooling to a hospital and research building of a university. The Hunosa Group has managed to face the challenge of transforming an eminently mining company into a .
· During the last decades, the Asturian Central Coal Basin (ACCB) has been a highly exploited coal mining area by means of underground mining and its network of tunnels extend among more than 30 mines. Parts of this infrastructure will soon become available for alternative uses since most of the coal mining facilities in Spain will fade out in 2018.