ESG

Gruncharitsa Project ESG

Environmental

  • The whole mining operation including workshops (crushing and sorting facilities) to be installed underground
  • Waste rock to be deposited into open stopes underground
  • Minimum nature land to be used for the industrial facilities construction
  • Minimum fresh water use for production needs – recycling of purified mine water
  • Ore Transport by Truck/Train to Elshitsa Beneficiation Plant – no ore beneficiation at mine site
  • Ore Beneficiation at existing Elshitsa Plant and Tailings – planned to be renewed/upgraded
  • Project for technical liquidation, conservation of mining sites and reclamation of disturbed terrain

Social

  • Organized visit for local majors and stakeholders from Bulgaria to Mittersill Tungsten active mine in Austria – one of the biggest underground mining operations in Central Europe. Mittersill mine is located in the heart of the Austrian Alps in nature reserve a few kilometres from Austria’s Hohe Tauern National Park

Governance

  • The technical design has been developed in accordance with BREF Code MTWR