Tara Resources lead zinc mine in Montenegro faces opposition from local community
Miners’ Day was greeted by uncertainty as to whether the Brskovo mine would be opened and what consequences it might have for people’s health and...
Category : Base metals
QX Resources expanding its Vuostok nickel-copper project in Sweden
QX Resources-backed Bayrock Resources has expanded the mineral lease area around its promising Vuostok nickel-copper project in Northern Sweden. In July, the Steve Promnitz-led lithium...
First Quantum Minerals to expand Kansanshi copper mine with MECS technology for smelter
Global copper company First Quantum Minerals Ltd. has contracted with MECS, Inc. (MECS), a subsidiary of Elessent Clean Technologies, for the Kansanshi Smelter Expansion at...
Getech supports Asian Battery Minerals in nickel exploration in Mongolia
Getech, a locator of subsurface resources, says it has successfully finished an exploration project for Asian Battery Minerals, a participant in the 2023 BHP Xplor...
DMCI to exceed 2022 nickel output and opening 2 new mines
DMCI Mining Corp. on Monday said it is on track to surpass its 2022 nickel ore production and shipments, eyeing to open two new mines...
Battery-grade lithium production to start in Germany
It has been called the new gold rush – a rush to catch up with China in producing and refining the materials needed in everything...
Developing raw materials into a major strength for Europe
The European Raw Materials Alliance (ERMA) and Greenland Resources highlight their successful collaboration on the Malmbjerg molybdenum project, a prime example of cross-regional mining for...
Serbia and Jadar lithium mines: will the project resume?
Serbia’s Minister of Mining and Energy Dubravka Đedović Handanović said on Thursday that it is necessary to “responsibly consider” how to approach her country’s critical...
Many society organisations are calling on the EBRD to reconsider its approach to mining investments
Twenty civil society organisations from Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Mongolia, Uganda, Ukraine and Uzbekistan, as well as seven international environmental and human...
Europe joins the ‘white gold’ rush for lithium and faces an energy transition challenge
The EU wants electric cars to drive it to net zero, powered by batteries produced in the bloc, but at what cost to people living...