Around 1.4 million euros will be spent on the Alentejo Geological and Mining Studies Centre (CEGMA) extension project in Aljustrel, which will enable "new projects in geology and mineral prospecting". Moreover, as mentioned by the National Energy and Geology Laboratory (LNEG), the CEGMA 2.0 project “allowed the expansion of the support building and the Aljustrel Litoteca”.

The project was 85% funded by community funds, including the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Alentejo 2020 and Portugal 2020 operating programs, as shared in a statement provided by LNEG. The main aim of this extension is to supply LNEG in Aljustrel “with advanced research resources, facilitating the development of new projects in geology and mineral prospecting”. Additionally, the investment seeks to support the sustainable growth of the Iberian Pyrite Belt and the Alentejo region.

The LNEG facility is now equipped "with analytical and rock and mineral processing equipment, favouring the application of rock dating techniques, geochemical studies, petrography, and geological, geochemical, and geophysical cartography”. Moreover, as revealed in the same statement, the investment also made it possible to “expand LNEG’s archiving capacity and improve the preservation and access to its scientific heritage, which currently includes more than 500 prospecting surveys, around 600 thousand samples of soil, stream sediments, rocks and minerals and more than 18 thousand maps”.

In 2018, the city council collaborated on a project called CEGMA, which opened on the LNEG campus in Aljustrel. The project’s goal was to “support extractive activity in the south of the country, both in its mining aspect and in its research aspect applied to geological resources”.