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The Socialists demand the PP government team to work so that these actions are considered as priorities in the restoration plan of the abandoned mining facilities, which the CARM plans to carry out over the next decade with FEDER funds

The councilor of the PSOE, David Romera has reported the need to undertake an ambitious comprehensive project for the recovery and enhancement of the mining-industrial facilities and geological uniqueness offered by the Sierra de Serrata, to turn it into a new product tourism that would come to enrich the rich heritage of Lorca.

Also, he has once again claimed the value of the mining legacy of Almendricos, for which the creation of a museum has been on the table for years.

To do this, it asks the PP to incorporate these actions in the restoration plan of the abandoned mining facilities, which the CARM plans to carry out over the next decade with FEDER funds.

Ensures that Serrata "offers great possibilities for exploitation as a tourism resource linked to the mining and industrial activity that has historically involved the extraction and refining of sulfur and take advantage of the exceptionality that this mountain has from the geological point of view (sedimentological, stratigraphic, mineralogical, geomorphological and paleontological), which makes it a space with an international scientific interest ", at the level of the tectonic fault of Alhama or the rock mass of Cabo Cope, according to sources of the Spanish Association of Geologists or the Murcian Association of Mineralogy.

At present, clarifies the socialist councilor, "there are a series of buildings and structures in various sectors of the Sierra de Serrata, as in Zarzadilla de Totana or on the Pantano highway, which deserve to be preserved for posterity because of its architectural interest and functional, and thus prevent them from disappearing forever as it happened recently with the Holcim Cement, symbol of the economic development of the 1960s ".

For example, on the Pantano road, in the extreme southwest of the sierra, there are two large furnaces from the 1940s whose structure of masonry and brick vaults is practically intact, but very degraded, as well as different wells, bocaminas, galleries and the characteristic breathing chimneys.

On the Zarzadilla de Totana road, there are the remains of a mining-industrial complex in an advanced state of ruin, but some of its buildings are recoverable to become the headquarters of what could be a "Mining-Industrial Interpretation Center" and Geological of Serrata ": it is one of the so-called" factories of profit "where was located the famous merchant" Azufres de Lorca, SA ", predecessor of others such as the" Franco-Spanish Company of Azufres de Lorca ", capital French (1890-1930), owner of the "Coto Felicidad", of 360 hectares and more than one hundred mines, which occupied most of the sierra.

Romera insists that the recovery of these buildings "must be accompanied by a scientific and especially didactic object" where, on the one hand, the geological wealth of the area is exposed, "where it is common for them to appear in the waste dumps, magnificent crystals of sulfur, celestite, calcite or quartz, as well as the famous fossils of fish and crustaceans that appear printed on the rock ";

and on the other hand, the thematized and painful process of extraction and refining of sulfur in the mines of Serrata, which ended up employing more than 600 workers (many children) at the end of the 19th century, when Lorca became the The main producer of sulfur in Spain "with 5,000 tons per year, with the" Gallo "brand having great prestige abroad due to the purity of the extracted sulfur.

Finally, the mayor notes that it is "absolutely necessary" to proceed as soon as possible to the signage and closed all those wells (there are about 200 census) that appear without protection and that are extremely dangerous.

It also claims that the Regional Heritage Law of 2007 is applied in Serrata "in order to promote the protection of this unique enclave and stop those aggressive anthropic actions that are destroying it in the form of plowing or massive earth movements or diverse industrial activities" .

Source: PSOE Lorca