Rio Tinto’s Planned Jadarite Mine Sparks Protest in Western Serbia
Protesters against a planned mine by Rio Tinto in western Serbia accused the local authorities of altering the urban plan to make way for an...
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Rio Tinto commits large funding for lithium project in Serbia
Jadar will be one of the largest industrial investments in Serbia, contributing 1% directly and 4% indirectly to GDP, with many Serbian suppliers involved in...
Rio Tinto faces charges from Serbian NGO’s
Lithium is crucial for the transition to renewables, but mining it is environmentally costly, experts warn. Two Serbian NGOs, the Coalition against Environmental Corruption and...
Worrying Rio Tinto’s gung-ho mining exploration
Zlatko Kokanovic, the vice president of ‘Ne Damo Jadar’ and a veterinarian writes about Rio Tinto’s scandal of Juukan Gorge and boardroom crises; Life in...
Rio Tinto should pay a higher ore rent in Serbia
Estimates show that Rio Tinto for a period of ten years of exploitation of jadarite ore, if we take into account the prices of three...
Rio Tinto signed financing deal with Turquoise for Mongolia’s Oyu Tolgoi expansion project
Claimed to be the world’s largest new copper-gold mines, the Oyu Tolgoi mine is located in Mongolia’s South Gobi region, approximately 550km south of Ulaanbaatar...
Deficit of trust in Rio Tinto’s social and environment program
Rights to information, to safe drinking water and a healthy environment underpin Rio Tinto’s social licence to operate. Indeed, the company goes to great lengths...
Joint venture of Bluejay and Rio Tinto
Rio Tinto Mining & Exploration Ltd notified Bluejay Mining that all remaining conditions of the joint-venture were satisfied. Bluejay Mining PLC said it will kick...
Rio Tinto declared its maiden lithium reserve in lithium/borate project in Serbia
At mining major Rio Tinto’s Jadar lithium/borate project, in Serbia, a maiden ore reserve of 16.6-million tonnes, grading 1.18% lithium oxide and 13.4% boron trioxide...
Rio Tinto and its subsidiary Turquoise Hill Resources-tax avoidance and golden promises
The information on avoided tax is published in a report by SOMO and Oyu Tolgoi Watch and it also shows how an abusive investment agreement...