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USE OF MINING RESOURCES
This catalog includes the necessary procedures to start a business activity of exploitation of mineral and other geological resources that takes place in the territory of the Autonomous Community of Galicia.
The following activities are excluded from the catalog application:
- Exploration, research, exploitation and subway storage of liquid and gas hydrocarbons.
- The occasional and minor extraction of mineral resources, regardless of their classification, provided that it is carried out by the owner of land for his exclusive use and does not require the application of any mining technique.
- The waters regulated in Law 5/1995, of June 7, 1995, regulating mineral, thermal and spring waters and spa establishments in the Autonomous Community of Galicia.
- Any exploitation of geothermal resources of little economic importance, in particular those used for heating, domestic or industrial air conditioning and/or sanitary hot water, based on very low enthalpy geothermal systems, with closed circuit exchangers, up to 200 meters deep, provided that it is carried out by the owner of the land for his exclusive use and that the exploitation does not require the application of any mining technique.
- The recreational use of thermal waters, which will be governed by the provisions of Law 8/2019, of December 23, 2009, regulating the recreational use of the thermal waters of Galicia.
The administrative procedure to apply for a mining right starts with the submission of the application form IN307A, pursuant to Article 18 of Law 3/2008, of May 23, 2008, on mining management in Galicia.
This is a single and integrated administrative procedure for all mining rights in the territory of the autonomous community, regardless of the type of resource and the mining activity carried out. The integrated procedure shifts the burden of the requests of the reports of the administered to the substantive body, which substantially simplifies the administrative procedure for the promoter.
Once the application for the activity permit has been submitted, and after the appropriate requests for amendment of the documentation required by the regulation, and which is included in the explanatory sheet of the procedure, the substantive body will proceed to request the reports listed below.
Law 3/2008, on the regulation of mining in Galicia
Order of October 22, 2015 by which the open-term administrative procedures of the Regional Ministry of Economy, Employment and Industry are adapted and incorporated to the electronic headquarters of the Xunta de Galicia.
