EDM

EDM is a public company which has for mission the promotion of:
• Distinctive Projects in the mining sector, which generate added value
• Ensure an effective remediation of the old abandoned degraded mining areas, in order to promote the security of people and goods, the rehabilitation and the use of the area by the local population.
• To serve, in the quality of a sectorial public company, as an instrument of the State in the technical specialized consulting and in strategic interventions in the geological and mining areas.

The values that are its guiding lines are:
Trust - to provide high standards of trust and credibility with all who surround her
Ethics – to perform with high ethical posture with all its acts
Competence – to promote the knowledge and the knowhow as its acting pillars
Efficiency – to ensure procedures that are simple, strict and will be value sources
Transparence – to act in a responsible way in the complete respect of the assumed commitments
Sustainability – to ensure the company growth and promote the development of the regions in which its performance takes place

EDM develops a very important recovery action of the environmental passives left by the old mining exploitations amongst whose we can find disordered heaps, run-offs and disposal of acid waters and abandoned facilities, including ancient radioactive exploitations.

EDM also intervenes in the prospection and mining research, due to its key role in the development of the economies that the mining industry represents and also the interdependencies with all the industrial sectors whose sustained growth depends of the availability of mineral raw materials ion competitive conditions.

Portugal is a mining country, whose high potential is necessary to catalogue in a way that the return, coming from the mining exploitation, can be maximized in a sustainable way.

EDM as for strategic goals:
• The launching of research and prospection projects
• The development of mining projects