The EU’s green transition relies on it, too. The Jadar project is a significant lithium and boron mining initiative located in Serbia, a non-EU member state. It aims to extract lithium from the ...

2024 Rio Tinto's Serbia lithium project could take two years to approve, minister says It could take Rio Tinto , two years to obtain the permits it needs to start construction on its Jadar lithium ...

View over the Jadar basin, Serbia. The buried lithium-boron resource is formed of subhorizontal layers in former lake sediments up to several hundred metres below the Earth’s surface. Focus: Informing ...

Serbia's government scrapped the de facto ban ... I will personally fight for the environment and for the lives of our citizens in Jadar, so that their water and air are clean," said President ...

Deal positions Rio Tinto among the world’s largest lithium miners, trailing only US-based Albemarle and Chile’s SQM.

Lack of support from Brussels for anti-corruption protests against President Vučić’s regime has become an 'extreme ...

On November 1 2024, the roof of a newly €55 million renovated railway station in Novi Sad, Serbia’s second biggest city, collapsed and killed 15 people. The deaths sparked Serbia’s largest wave of ...

Last month, Serbia reinstated Rio’s licence to develop what would be Europe’s biggest lithium mine in the western Jadar region, two years after the previous government halted the licensing ...

Rio Tinto also owns the Jadar project in Serbia. The project was put on hold due to environmental protests. However, Serbia’s top court lifted the ban in July 2024. The Jadar Project will now be ...

Dubravka Djedović Handanović, Serbia's mining and energy minister, told the AP in an interview that the Jadar valley contains some 158 million tons of lithium, or about 17% of the overall ...

from the Kraljevo-based Lokalni front and Nebojsa Petkovic from the association Ne damo Jadar, which is fighting a controversial lithium mine project in Serbia’s Jadar Valley. The article said ...