The Jadar project is yet to begin production and has encountered multiple setbacks in recent years, including permitting ...

BELGRADE, Aug 9 (Reuters) - It could take Rio Tinto (RIO.AX), opens new tab, (RIO.L), opens new tab two years to obtain the permits it needs to start construction on its Jadar lithium project in ...

Protesters packed the streets leading to Terazije square, waving Serbian flags and chanting "You will not dig," and "Rio Tinto leave Serbia!" Sign up here. Government officials said the protests were ...

By Tatyana Kekic in Belgrade Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto has postponed development of its multi-billion dollar Jadar lithium project in western Serbia, after years of delays and public ...

JADAR VALLEY, Serbia — Vladan Jakovljevic’s bees are angry. As he slowly lifts a cover from atop one of dozens of hives, they swarm, one of them stinging him in the cheek. He calls it a “bee kiss.” ...

Rio Tinto Zinc is quietly trying to restart a $2.4 billion plan to dig for lithium in the Jadar region of Serbia two years after the original mining permit was canceled in response to a massive ...

A Rio Tinto mine that Europe sees as a critical source for electric vehicle batteries has been the target of enormous protests. “I don’t need green cars. I need green apples and green grass,” said one ...

Mining giant Rio Tinto hired an Israeli campaign strategist in 2021 to promote its unpopular plan for a lithium mine in Serbia, despite due diligence identifying him as a ‘potential government ...

Serbia and EU signed a memorandum of understanding on critical raw materials that will enable a major lithium-mining project, which has sparked major protests, to go ahead despite environmental ...

Rio Tinto is diversifying beyond iron ore, investing heavily in lithium production, positioning itself as a major player in the battery metals sector. The correlation between Rio Tinto's stock and ...