EUROPE teams are looking to lead the European mining industry for social and environmental responsibility , and for health and safety .
The mine , which has proven sulphide ore reserves of 198.1 million tonnes , is optimally situated , as Forward explains : “ We like the area and we like the deposit particularly because we like the copper porphyries . It has got good infrastructure , a well-educated workforce , good logistics , proximity to a smelter and we knew how important all of that was from developing the Skouries deposit further to the south when we were at European Goldfields .
“ The deposit has great continuous mineralisation and it is very amenable to open pit development . It was a perfect combination of being on entirely state owned forestry ground , a little bit up in the hills and only 17 kilometres from a reasonable sized town . We weren ’ t looking at displacing anyone - there is a good workforce available and good infrastructure locally . That ’ s what attracted us in .” With construction at the mine billed for completion in the next two years , Euromax is working with key industry partners to ensure that it is not only delivered on time and on budget , but also to the satisfaction of the local community and to international environmental standards .
The fact that it already had an approved EIA indicated that there was much approval for the project , both locally and in the country as a whole . “ Although we had been working in
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