Since the end of the 2000s, about thirty new metallic mining projects were born, in contradiction with the shift of mining investments towards the Global South. Andalusia is at the forefront of this mining reactivation process with seven new metallic mines and other projects about to start. Such projects benefit from the support of public authorities at the regional, national and European scales ever since the European Commission presented the Raw Material Initiative, in 2008. How can mining extraction appear as a solution in a context of economic, social and environmental crisis ? As a first step, this article develops an answer based on the study of institutional discourses of mining renewal. From the European Union to Andalusia, it shows how the labour of conviction, which can be observed in the public discourse, produces a consensual statement, through which the ‘solution’ of mining renewal incorporates heterogeneous motives and relies on wording that aim to neutralize contradictions. The stabilisation of the mining renewal statement then generates alliances between public and private actors around two policy objectives. First, the statement promotes a policy of knowledge that supports the undergrounds exploitation. Second, holding the states responsible for the under-exploitation of European raw materials leads to a second objective, which is to incorporate the mining imperative to undergrounds policy.