Copper ore enrichment plant in Spac mine, Mirdita, a 25 million euro investment by “Tete Albania” company is ready to resume copper ore enrichment process which increases the minerals value. Prime Minister Edi Rama was presented to the undertaken investment within the mine by the company directors where 2500 metres of underground galleries is hitherto opened, during the Premier’s visit at the plant. “The total investment will be 25 million euro,” the company representative says. Establishment of this facility, according to Prime Minister, boosts mining industry capacity in the country where two decades-lacked investments are underway. “We are undergoing an utterly important development in this filed which have lacked for 20 years. Even this 25 million euro investment is highly pivotal,” Prime Minister Edi Rama said.

There are 200 employees actually employed and the company plans to open new galleries in order to bolster workforce to 300. “Around 200 people are employed currently along with subcontractors but the number is expected to increase to 300,” the company representative said. Qualified workforce recruitment remains a hard patch already encountered by foreign companies operating in our country.” Finding technicians is particularly difficult,” the firm representative said.

Prime Minister Rama underlined that the aim is to create a qualified workforce, given that this region is rich with mineral supplies and huge further development potentials of such an industry. In this regard, a vocational school on mines is established in Bulqiza. “The issue is not to merely create new job vacancies but also to build working capacities as it increasingly occurs that there is work but there is a lack of technical capacities to perform a certain job. Therefore we have opened a vocational school on mines here in Bulqize, following an intertwined system of attending school during part of the week and the remaining part at work, which assists you as well as aids the sector’s further development,” the Premier said.

The other side of such new investments, according to the Prime Minister is the increase both on the payment level and the working conditions within the mines. “This sector has faced a plethora of issues from all viewpoints, security, development and employment. It necessitates more work to raise it to the desired level but, however, we have an entirely different situation nowadays. The average payment within the mining sector is above the general average,” the Premier said while considered it an industrial revolution. “The most important thing to us is that change is underway and hence we are leaping from extracting ore and sending it abroad to domestic enrichment and domestic value growth. Likewise it is occurring to copper ore and to chromium ore which constitutes an enormous industrial transformation.”