LCM and Rainbow Rare Earths sign strategic supply agreement
Rainbow Rare Earths has entered into a strategic supply agreement with UK-based LESS COMMON METALS LIMITED to develop a responsible Western supply chain for Rare...
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EU acts to secure access to critical raw materials
The European Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA) – which is at the heart of the EU’s effort to address critical raw materials strategic dependencies and...
Environmentalists concerned with go-ahead for lithium mine in Portugal
The Romano lithium mine, proposed for Montalegre in Portugal’s northern district of Vila Real, has received a favourable conditional environmental impact statement from the Portuguese...
Norwegian Mineral Strategy to ramp up production of materials crucial to global industry
In 2021, Norway was revealed to be the location of another large deposit of critical raw materials (CRM),1 as 240 million MT of phosphate, vanadium,...
EU innovation fund to supercharge battery supply chain
A beefed up Innovation Fund that gets European know-how off the ground is needed to ensure Europe’s place in the global critical minerals race, writes...
Portugal lithium mine given green light
Portugal’s environment agency APA has given its approval for local company Lusorecursos to extract battery-grade lithium in what would be one of the country’s first...
Metal producers and consumers call on EU to invest in critical minerals
Metal producers and consumers urged the European Union to invest more in expanding processing capacity for minerals critical to the energy transition, such as those...
Parliament moves to bolster EU’s ‘strategic projects’ for critical minerals
The European Parliament’s political groups want to strengthen social and environmental safeguards for “strategic” mining projects in Europe and abroad as the EU scrambles to...
Record antimony production at Olimpiada
Polyus, Russia’s largest gold producer, has reported record antimony contained in flotation concentrate production from its Olimpiada mine in H1 2023. In 2018, the Olimpiada...
Volt Resources graphite production continues at Zavalievsky
Volt started the second production campaign of graphite concentrate at its Zavalievsky Graphite (ZG) mine in Ukraine. Volt Resources owns a 70% stake in ZG,...