Retortillo is a municipality located in the
province of Salamanca
Salamanca () is a province of western Spain, in the western part of the autonomous community of Castile and León (Castilla y León). It is bordered by the provinces of Ávila, Cáceres, Valladolid, and Zamora, and on the west by Portugal. It ...
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Castile and León
Castile and León is an Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community in northwestern Spain. Castile and León is the largest autonomous community in Spain by area, covering 94,222 km2. It is, however, sparsely populated, with a pop ...
, Spain.
Mine
A
Uranium mine in Retortillo is proposed by Berkeley Minera, an Australian mining company. Being only 50 km to the
Portugal–Spain border, a protest was held in Portugal by several Iberian protest groups, they oppose the mine and also marked twentieth anniversary of the mining disaster in Spain known as the
Doñana disaster. The Portuguese government has asked the Spanish government for a meeting regarding the mine.
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References
Municipalities in the Province of Salamanca
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