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A New Mining Site has been Opened in Tukums Municipality

In order to meet the demand for sand and sand-gravel resources, JSC “Latvia’s State Forests” (LVM) has opened a new mining site “Praviņas II” D iecirknis” in Slampe Rural Territory, Tukums Municipality.

The facility's industrial-scale stock is 157 thousand cubic metres of sand and 50 thousand cubic metres of sand-gravel. This is one of the more than one hundred mining sites managed by LVM where mineral materials are available to any builder.

The materials extracted will be available for the nearby construction sites. Reduction of delivery distances will reduce costs, thus saving money. Likewise, the existing roads will not be damaged and emissions of exhaust gases will decrease.

Mining sites are carefully selected so as not to endanger the environment but at the same time meet the needs of the company and the economy for sand, sand gravel and other minerals. More information on the quarries managed by the company and the mineral deposits is available here.

Since its foundation in 1999, Joint Stock Company “Latvia’s State Forests” implementing sustainable forest management has paid one billion euros to state and local government budgets. LVM's economic activities are carried out by maintaining and recovering forests, taking care of nature conservation, recreation opportunities and increasing timber volumes, as well as investing in expanding the forest land and developing forest infrastructure - renovation of drainage systems and forest road construction. The volume of timber in the forests managed by LVM increases by 12 million cubic metres annually.