Russian rare and rare earth metals production plan for global leadership
Large corporations from the U.S., Europe, Japan and South Korea are extremely interested in rare and rare earth metals supplies from Russia. The global shift...
Category : Base metals
Beowulf MoU with Epsilon Advanced on graphite processing in Finland
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between exploration and development company Beowulf Mining with Epsilon Advanced Materials Private, a subsidiary of Epsilon Carbon, to...
Capella Minerals restoring Norway’s copper sector
Historically important Norway’s copper mining sector has supplied the metal to Europe since the Age of Enlightenment. Capella Minerals has a market capitalization of CAD$10...
Greenland’s snap election could shape rare-earth access
Among the lofty dramatics of geopolitics, international observers now find themselves paying attention to the operation of a tiny democracy of 56,000 people, most of...
Zijin’s request for separate environment assessments rejected in Serbia
The two organizations Association of Young Researchers Bor and the Renewables and Environmental Regulatory Institute (RERI) have been raising the alarm in the public and...
Rio Tinto lithium mine in Serbia and ICT metal mining case study
The Jadar River and its alluvial plain, together with upstream tributaries and streams near the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, are one of the relatively...
Large new Zijin investments in Serbia
New announced Zijin investment in Serbia is worth 474 million dollars. Aleksandar Vucic announced that the Chinese company Zidjin will start a large investment and...
Rio Tinto is ecological catastrophe for Serbian citizens
Activists of several associations of citizens and environmental groups submitted a petition to Prime Minister Ana Brnabic with more than 32,000 signatures against the project...
Jadar’s Serbian lithium project to be developed by new ASX company
Jadar Resources is spinning out its Serbian lithium and borate assets into a new ASX listed company that will count copper producer Sandfire Resources as one of...
Zijin’s new investments in Serbia’s mine in 2021
In 2021, Zijin Bor Copper, the Serbian unit of China’s Zijin Mining Group, plans to invest $408 million (339 million euro) in the Bor mining...