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Deputy Alfonso Martinez Baños denounces that while the regional government is considering resuming mining activity in the vicinity of the town's urban center, the existing mining wealth in the area suffers from the plunder and "a depreciation deterioration and neglect on the part of its owners"
The deputy of the Socialist Parliamentary Group Alfonso Martínez Baños claims in a motion presented in the Regional Assembly support for the conservation of the mines located in the municipality of Mazarrón.
Specifically, it requests the General Directorate of Industry, Energy and Mines to cancel the public competition called for the adjudication of the preferential right on free land occupied by the expired mining rights of 26 mining concessions in the municipality of Mazarrón, published in the BORM No. 182, August 8, 2014.
It also asks the Ministry of Culture and Portavocía to proceed with the utmost urgency, and in collaboration with the City of Mazarrón, to instruct the corresponding file to force the owners of the San Cristóbal-Los Perules mining area to put the means Necessary to avoid the plundering and deterioration of what is being declared this place declared of Cultural Interest, with category of historical site, and guarantee its conservation.
Likewise, it requests the Regional Government that in case of non-compliance carry out the subsidiary execution.
The mining cove of San Cristóbal-Los Perules (Mazarrón) is one of the most singular manifestations of the mining metallurgical activity developed in Mazarrón throughout history and has one of the best preserved mining landscapes of the mining district of Mazarron.
The socialist deputy highlighted the mining relevance of the region of Mazarron, rich in copper, iron, silver and lead, with the heads of San Cristobal and Los Perules of the largest and best preserved remains of the Roman period of the first and second centuries BC In its interior are located the old exploitations mining metallurgical of Roman time, like Mina La Corta, Mine Cosme, Mina Triunfo, Mina San Antonio, Mina Esperanza (Cabezo de San Antonio de Padua) or Cabezo de Robles.
After the Romans were other civilizations that continued their activity in this enclave mazarronero, lasting with the passage of time the complexes of San Antonio de Padua, set Talía, Aurora, The Group, La Cosica, Vista Alegre, San Jose, San Vicente, The Hare, Santa Ana, Usurpada, San Carlos, Triunfo, Ceferina and Recovered, to which are added the Old Factory of Alumbres, conforming in its totality 83 elements cataloged of this singular place.
Martinez Baños said that some of these sets still have characteristic elements such as chimneys, engine rooms, metal or masonry castles, galleries, hoppers, discharge springs, wells, rafts, etc., witnesses to the activities and processes Developed in these mining operations.
The socialist deputy said about the surprise announcement in 2014 of the General Directorate of Mines to seek to resume mining activity in said municipality, without any information to the consistory, that "it is not consistent to call for competition 26 mining concessions in an area that is Has become a hallmark of Mazarrón, both tourist and cultural, and whose wealth does not leave visitors indifferent, apart from the trajectory that has shaped the history of this municipality and its people.
He added that while the General Directorate "intends to resume mining activity in the vicinity of the urban core of the municipality, our mining wealth suffers from the plunder and a depreciation deterioration and neglect on the part of its owners."
The owners are, on the one hand, a Basque company denominated "Churruca" that owns the majority of the lands on which erected such constructions;
And on the other hand, a company from Murcia, owner of one of the most significant mines of this complex, the San Antonio mine.
Therefore, it demands support to the regional government so that this millenarian mining wealth is not lost.
Source: PSRM-PSOE
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