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Highfield Resources launches community-minded Muga Community Initiative

Published: 01:44 01 Jul 2022 BST

Highfield Resources Ltd - Highfield Resources launches community-minded Muga Community Initiative

Highfield Resources Ltd (ASX:HFR) has launched its community-minded Muga Community Initiative a new public-private partnership created to help promote local development around the Muga Potash Mine.

The Muga Community Initiative is a social development project that encourages and facilitates collaboration and involvement between the local public administrations and the private sector. Its launch follows the start of construction activities at Muga.

HFR is focused on the construction of its flagship low cost, low capex Muga project in Spain having been granted the Mining Concession in July 2021 and now the mine gate and declines construction licence in June 2022.

Initiative to help broader community

The initiative comes as a direct result of the Government of Navarra’s 2021 Social Baseline Study of Muga.

Managing Director of the department of Local Administration and Depopulation of the Government of Navarra, Mr Jesús María Rodríguez, spoke at the launch saying that the Initiative’s aim is "to promote the local development of the Sangüesa region, guaranteeing the settlement of the population and the emergence of new opportunities for the economic area of the Mine and its inhabitants, from a collective vision".

Also in attendance was Ms Miriam Martón, Managing Director of the Navarra Employment Service; Mr Tomás Rodríguez, Director General of Vocational Training; Mr Luis Campos, Director General of the Social Reality Observatory; Mr Eneko Larrarte, Director General of Housing; and local community Mayors.

Through the Muga Community Initiative the Government aims to maximise the socio-economic impact the Mine will have on the local area and to contribute as a partner with the coordination and implementation of four sectoral commissions to address the issues of training and employment, infrastructure, community services and socio-cultural resources.

HFR CEO Salazar is looking forward to bringing benefits to the local community.

"We congratulate the Government of Navarra for taking the leadership in initiatives like Comunidad Muga,” Salazar said.

“As we are starting construction, the Muga Community partnership arrives at the right time to maximise the socio-economic benefits of the Project in the community. This partnership demonstrates once more the continued support at all levels from the Government of Navarra and the local authorities and communities to Muga."

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