EVR receives Change of Use of Soil permit for its Tecomatlán processing plant in Mexico

EV Resources (ASX:EVR) has achieved a key regulatory milestone at its Tecomatlán Processing Plant in Puebla, Mexico, following the receipt of the Change of Use of Soil permit by the plant owner. The receipt of this “fundamental” permit satisfies a core land-use regulatory requirement under Mexican frameworks and establishes the path for near-term antimony production.

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The critmins development company is now eligible to immediately submit the Informe Preventivo (Preventive Report), which represents the final environmental reporting step required to operate the Phase 1 gravity circuit.

Because the process flow sheet uses a reagent-free design with dry-stacked tailings, no environmental permits are needed before construction begins.

“Securing the Change of Use of Soil permit is a major derisking milestone that clears the administrative runway for our Phase One gravity circuit,” EV Resources’ managing director Mike Brown told shareholders today.

“Our team in Mexico is moving to finalise and lodge the Informe Preventivo, and have already lodged our formal grid application with CFE.”

The explorer’s managing director continued: Securing mainline power will not only insulate our unit operating costs from volatile diesel markets, but ensures the Tecomatlán Plant establishes a highly efficient, clean, and low-cost processing footprint as we target first concentrate production in 2HCY26.”

EVR has also submitted an industrial user application for grid interconnection to Mexico’s national electricity authority, the Comisión Federal de Electricidad. (That could only be started after EVR locked in the Change of Use of Soil.)

The CFE has confirmed the existing point of interconnection has adequate electrical capacity to support the operational load of the Tecomatlán facility. The required physical connection infrastructure involves less than 150 metres of cabling and a step-down transformer positioned on an existing power pole.

Tecomatlán is also currently being refurbished to process third-party ore and eventually material from the company’s flagship Los Lirios antimony project.

EVR also noted its forward-looking production targets remain subject to standard industry risks, including “delays in obtaining final government approvals, financing challenges, and commodity price fluctuations.”

EVR has last been trading at 0.8cps today.

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