Miedzi Copper Corporation had discovered deposits of silver and copper worth an estimated $60 billion in western Poland. Under Polish law natural resources belong to the state, so, if mined, the deposits could provide a handy boost to the nation’s coffers. The riches lie buried around 1,900 metres beneath the surface near the towns of […]

The remote village of Covas do Barroso, a short walk from Western Europe’s largest lithium deposit, was triggered by government plans to establish the country as Europe’s production hub for the metal, a critical component in electric vehicle batteries. Many locals are determined to halt the development, fearing the mine will scar the landscape, pollute […]

The expansion of mining activities in Serbia is currently increasing. Exploitation of copper, lead, zinc, silver and gold is widely spread.   Experts in the field point out that it is important that, in parallel with the opening of the mines, a supporting industry is developed to maximize the benefits of the raw material itself, […]

Mining consortium was formed in 2006 to explore Amulsar gold deposits in the Armenian province of Vayots Dzor before being awarded excavation rights to the site by the Armenian Government in 2012. The company’s local subsidiary Lydian Armenia LLC has ranked among Armenia’s top taxpayers for several years and is responsible for the single largest […]

Oksut is planned as a conventional truck and shovel open pit heap leach mining operation. It is a mine located in the Kayseri province of south-central Turkey, 295 km to the southeast of the capital city of Ankara and 48 km south of the city of Kayseri. A total of approximately 28.2 million tonnes at […]

The Russian government is considering spending $1 billion from its sovereign wealth fund on a loan to mining giant Norilsk Nickel for its Arctic Palladium project, the Interfax news agency cited a source as saying. The Arctic Palladium project is Nornickel’s joint venture with Russian businessman Musa Bazhaev. Source: reuters.com

Poland has some of the worst air quality in the European Union, so it is no wonder why Poland’s planned expansion of its Turów lignite mine on the Czech border is straining bilateral ties and raising questions about compliance with European Union regulations. Turów’s licence expires in April and Polish state-owned utility PGE hopes extraction […]

The Finnish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment announced that the Finnish government granted a permit for state-owned Terraframe company to extract and refine uranium from the ore obtained from its mine in Sotkamo, east Finland. The Finnish government confirmed that the project meets the requirements of the legislation concerning nuclear and radiation safety, and […]

An environmental impact study of the Chukaru Peki gold and copper mine owned by China’s Zijin Mining Group was presented to the citizens of Bor. “I was born in Bor and as mining expert who worked at the RTB Bor mine for forty-two years and was closely related to underground mining for all that period, […]