Serbian president pumps brakes on lithium development after EU deal
Serbian top court ruled last month that the government’s decision in 2022 to revoke Rio Tinto’s permit for the Jadar project was unconstitutional.
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Liontown kicks off lithium production in Western Australia
Billionaire Gina Rinehart-backed Liontown Resources (ASX: LTR) has begun producing lithium at its flagship Kathleen Valley project in Western Australia. The first spodumene concentrate, the most common lithium containing hard rock, follows the…
Sayona, Piedmont mark improvements at NAL as lithium price slides further
Six months after Sayona Mining (ASX: SYA) and Piedmont Lithium (NASDAQ: PLL; ASX: PLL) announced a cost cutting review at their 75%-25% owned North American Lithium (NAL) mine in Quebec,…
Video: ‘Big bang’ in commodity demand set to lift miners, Prins says
Global miners are set to benefit from rising needs for “real assets,” Nomi Prins, a macroeconomist and author of the newsletter PrInsights Global, says in a new interview. Global geopolitical…
Big Oil seizes lithium opportunities
Mining companies could benefit in cash and technology as major fossil fuel companies such as ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM), Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY) and Equinor (NYSE: EQNR) invest in lithium, a potential lifeline amid…
Best resource investing bets for a Trump or Harris win
Since the July 13 assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, there’s been a proliferation of ‘Trump Trade’ ideas circulating across the media. Up until last week, a Trump re-election…
CleanTech makes battery-grade lithium in DLE pilot
Shares in CleanTech Lithium (LSE: CTL) rallied on Monday after the Chile-focused explorer and developer announced it had completed the first phase of production at its Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE)…
Chile copper, lithium mines rattled by 7.4 quake
A 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit northern Chile on Thursday night, 45 km outside San Pedro de Atacama, where the majority of the country’s vast copper and lithium mines are located. The…
Zambia, US, and Canada slowest for mine development: S&P Global
According to a new report by S&P Global, the United States has the second-longest lead times in the world for developing a new mine. Mines in the U.S. go from…
Serbian top court clears path for Rio Tinto’s Jadar lithium project
Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) could be back in the running to develop Europe’s top lithium mine after a Serbian court ruled the government unlawfully revoked the…
Fatality halts work at Atlantic Lithium’s Ewoyaa project
Ewoyaa is expected to become Ghana’s first lithium operation.
Critical Metals finalizes JV deal for Saudi Arabia lithium plant
Critical Metals Corp. (NASDAQ: CRML) says it’s finalized a deal with Saudi Arabia’s Obeikan Group to build a large-scale lithium hydroxide processing plant in the kingdom. The two will form…