Browsing: lithium exploration

Rio Tinto continues to buy a land in Gornje Nedeljice, a village in the municipality of Loznica. That’s why the locals are wondering if  Prime Minister Ana Brnabić really put an end to…

Jadar could have made Serbia billions of dollars richer if not for voiding Rio Tinto’s lithium exploration licences in January. Serbians might have made the right…

Only red-roofed houses interrupt the vast carpet of fields that surround the village of Gornje Nedeljice, in western Serbia. To resident Marijana Petković, this is the most…

On the face of it, there seems to be little in the way of connection between the treatment of Novak Djokovic by Australian authorities and the…

Australian mining giant Rio Tinto (ASX: RIO) is on rocky ground in Serbia at the moment as continued environmental protests put pressure on the government to suspend its…

As a school teacher in Gornje Nedeljice in western Serbia, Marijana Trbović Petković is both inquisitive and open-minded. So when in late December the CEO of…

The management of “Rio Tinto” points out that the “Jadar” project is transparent, but the exact amount of funds, intended for lithium and pine mining and…

Trying to defuse large protests by environmentalists, Serbia’s populist government decided on Wednesday to reconsider two key laws that would help mining giant Rio Tinto launch…

Local environmentalist group March from Kolubara won a temporary ban at the Basic Court in Valjevo on exploration works by company Euro Lithium Balkan in the…

Tens of thousands of people in more than 50 cities in Serbia protested on December 4 against the referendum law, the expropriation law and Rio Tinto’s…