Spain Has Europe’s Only Known Coltan Reserve
Strategic Minerals is a company with US and Spanish capital that is in charge of the exploitation of the Penouta mine, located in the municipality...
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EU’s Critical Raw Materials Act: Balancing Aspirations and Identified Shortcomings
The EEB acknowledges some improvements in the final text, such as the increased recycling target to 25% and the inclusion of the United Nations Declaration...
Boliden Aims to Resume Operations at Europe’s Largest Zinc Mine by Second Quarter of 2024
Boliden is planning to resume wage negotiations next month with around 650 employees at its Tara zinc operation in Ireland with a view to resuming...
Tomra XRT Technology Enhances Tungsten Grade at Spanish Mine
Tomra Mining has installed a first X-Ray transmission (XRT) ore sorter at Saloro’s tungsten mine in Barruecopardo, Spain. The sorter, implemented in the beneficiation stage,...
Potential Game-Changer: EU’s New Battery Recycling Rules in Quest for EV Minerals
The clean energy transition will require lots of batteries — primarily to power electric vehicles and to store renewable energy that can be dispatched to...
French Region Hit by Deindustrialization Grapples with Hope and Concerns Over Lithium Mine Project
A lithium mining project has drawn hope of economic revival in a region hit by deindustrialisation in central France, but the project promoters are confronted...
Strategizing EU’s Path to Ensure Sustainable Supply of Critical Minerals
Mining giant Glencore has been extracting copper in the Peruvian province of Espinar for more than a decade. During that time, the presence of toxic...
Norway Doubles Down on Deep-Sea Mining Despite Environmental Concerns
The Norwegian government wants to fire the starting gun on the exploitation of rare metals and minerals at the bottom of the ocean. But critics...
The conditions for terminating the contract with the concessionaire of the Brskovo mine have been met
“The conditions for terminating the contract with the concessionaire of the Brskovo mine near Mojkovac have been met, as urban-planning and technical conditions have not...
Western rare earth industries shift away from Chinese technologies
Beijing is sending a strong signal to the global rare-earth industry: China will no longer export other key refining and processing technologies. The measure, attributed...