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The Serbian parliament didn't accept the opposition's proposal to modify the country's mining law to ban the exploration and exploitation of lithium and boron. Such a decision would have ended Rio ...
In July 2024, a series of environmental protests began in Serbia against the Jadar mine, a European Union–backed and Serbian government-approved lithium mining project. The project was proposed by Anglo-Australian Rio Tinto to develop Europe's largest lithium mine in the West Serbian region of Jadar, causing significant backlash due to its potential environmental damage and exploitation of ...
On 14 February, Manojlović sent over 290,000 signatures of an initiative that sought to prohibit lithium exploitation. [85] Four days later, Manojlović and Kreni-Promeni organised a press conference in front of the National Assembly where they announced that the initiative was rejected. [86]
The Thacker Pass lithium deposit has measured and indicated resources of 13.7 million tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent, at an average ore grade of 2,231 ppm (0.22%) lithium. [19] The Thacker Pass volcano-sedimentary deposit is the largest known sedimentary lithium resource in the U.S. [ 5 ]
By 2020, future exploitation of jadarite and extraction of lithium instigated heated public and academic debate, especially after Rio Tinto's destruction of the Juukan Gorge in Australia. Environmentalists, local population and some scientists and professors are against it, citing usage of large quantities of water and various acids and other ...
This is a list of countries by lithium mine production from 2018 onwards. [1]
It is also being explored for the lithium brine beneath its salt, 300,100 hectares (742,000 acres) of it were awarded to LSC Lithium for development. [2] The exploitation of lithium reserves drew criticism from Indigenous community leaders for the steep decline in groundwater levels, threatening local farming.
A satellite view of the sprawling Yanacocha gold mine, built two decades ago with the financial backing of the International Finance Corp., the private-lending arm of the World Bank. Locals have rallied against a planned expansion — highlighted in green — citing concerns of economic exploitation and environmental destruction.