Workshop on Mercury management and decontamination in Almadén (Spain)

The objectives of the activity were to present the state-of-the-art techniques for the sound management of mercury and mercury wastes, and know how for the implementation of the Regional Plan with particular focus on mercury contaminated sites and their decontamination in a sound environmental manner, taking advantage of the expertise of the National Technology Centre for Mercury Decontamination  (CTNDM), created in 2009 by initiative and funding of the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Affairs, and located in the area of the Almadén mines, the biggest mercury site in the world exploited since Roman times, and 2) to have an exchange of ideas and experiences on the regional and national activities that would help most the concerned parties to implement the Regional Plan as well as to discuss on the proposed elements for a reporting format on the implementation of the Regional Plan developed by MED POL.

The participants countries were Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Morocco and Spain.

Here you can find the minutes of the meeting.

More information and the presentations of the meeting can be found at  www.cprac.org/almaden

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