Eurobattery Minerals has advanced its San Juan tungsten project in Galicia, Spain, into equipment procurement following completion of basic engineering for a planned processing facility. The company has begun manufacturing major components for a 20-tonne-per-hour processing plant, moving the project beyond the engineering stage and into physical project execution.
Processing Plant Equipment Orders
Procurement orders have been placed for crushing, grinding and gravity-concentration equipment. Negotiations are also approaching completion for additional processing components, including screens, hydrocyclones, thickeners, tanks and pumps.
Eurobattery said the equipment programme represents an investment of several million euros. The planned expenditure is covered by financing already available to the project. The procurement programme therefore marks a project-execution milestone rather than a new financing announcement.
Mining Licence Secured Through 2055
The San Juan project holds a mining licence extended until 2055, providing an established permitting framework for its development. The project is focused on tungsten, a metal used in hard metals, cutting tools, aerospace, defence and advanced industrial applications. Its development comes as Europe seeks to reduce exposure to concentrated external sources of critical mineral supply.
EU Tungsten Imports Remain Concentrated
Eurobattery said China, Vietnam and Kazakhstan accounted for 97% of EU ferrotungsten imports by value in 2025, demonstrating the concentration of Europe’s external tungsten supply. Development of San Juan could add to the EU’s domestic upstream tungsten base if the project progresses from equipment procurement to construction and commercial production.
The latest project update does not include new EU or European Investment Bank funding, a new project-finance package or a new binding offtake agreement. Instead, the development involves capital being committed to physical processing equipment at an already licensed European tungsten project. For the San Juan tungsten project, the start of equipment procurement represents a move from engineering work toward the installation of the processing infrastructure required for future production.
