Water, Indigenous Rights Test Europe’s Critical Minerals Projects
Europe’s drive to expand domestic production of lithium, rare earths and other strategic materials is bringing environmental and social issues into the centre of project...
Category : Europe
Europe’s Critical Minerals Strategy Faces a Midstream Processing Deficit
Europe is increasing investment in critical raw materials, but its exposure extends beyond access to mineral deposits. The European Union faces a significant shortage of...
Dutch LiSA consortium tests direct route from lithium chloride to battery materials
A Dutch consortium involving Nobian, Back to Battery, the University of Twente and Demcon Suster has launched the LiSA project to develop a lower-energy route...
Aurubis starts production at €190 million Hamburg complex recycling plant
Aurubis has begun production at its Complex Recycling Hamburg facility following approximately two and a half years of construction, adding new capacity for processing complex...
Tees Valley Lithium agrees preliminary Alberta feedstock framework with E3 Lithium
Tees Valley Lithium (TVL) and Canada’s E3 Lithium have established a preliminary framework to process lithium carbonate from the Clearwater project in Alberta into battery-grade...
Viridis receives German permit for Hydropulse lithium-ion battery recycling
Viridis Recycling, a spin-off of Germany’s Fraunhofer IWKS, has obtained approval under the Federal Immission Control Act for its lithium-ion battery recycling facility in Hanau,...
FireFox expands Finnish gold drilling at Mustajärvi and Sarvi
FireFox Gold has expanded its exploration programme in Finnish Lapland after completing 56 holes totalling 13,945 metres at the Mustajärvi project and starting follow-up drilling...
Beowulf drills Kallak North ahead of Swedish iron-ore prefeasibility study
Beowulf Mining has launched an infill drilling campaign at the Kallak iron-ore project in northern Sweden, focusing on shallow mineralisation in the Kallak North deposit...
Sunrise takes option on Nevada copper-silver-gold project
Sunrise Resources has entered a lease and purchase option covering the principal claim at the Lake copper-silver-gold project in Churchill County, Nevada, securing access to...
Kazera receives US$750,000 advance for Northern Cape mineral-sands operations
Kazera Global has received a US$750,000 advance payment from South Africa AT Investments, marking the first cash milestone under a production-sharing agreement covering the Walviskop...