Seven months after the Kyrgyz state seized control of the lucrative Kumtor mine from the Canadian firm Centerra Gold, the company has confirmed that it finally entered talks with Bishkek. Last summer, Centerra complained that Bishkek was refusing to engage in negotiations. According to a company press release dated January 3, “Negotiations with representatives of the Kyrgyz Republic are […]

Canada’s Eldorado Gold (TSX:ELD)(NYSE:EGO) said on Tuesday it had completed key growth projects at two of its assets — the Lamaque mine in Val d’Or, Quebec, and  Kışladağ gold mine in Turkey, which will allow it to further expand production outside Greece. For years, the miner focused its exploration and development efforts in the European country. Long dragged […]

The company expects minister Elisabeth Köstinger to visit the Wolfsberg Lithium Project early in 2022. European Lithium Ltd (ASX:EUR, OTCQB:EULIF) has welcomed a call from Austrian Minister for Agriculture, Regions and Tourism Elisabeth Köstinger to accelerate the domestic extraction of raw materials to make Austria more independent of imports. Köstinger, whose ministry is responsible for mining […]

Mawson Gold has received key planning and regulatory decisions related to its Rajapalot gold-cobalt project in the Lapland region of Finland. The decisions were handed down by the Lapin Liitto, the regional council of Lapland. The council voted 42-6 in favour of developing the deposit. The body also approved the participation and evaluation plan, which […]

The license was withdrawn because of inactivity at the site and a failure to make the agreed guarantee payments, the government said. According to Reuters, Greenland has stripped a Chinese mining company of its license to an iron ore deposit near the capital Nuuk. General Nice, a Chinese coal and iron ore importer, took control of the […]

Campaigners say the area is home to rich biodiversity and natural landscape, and is not appropriate for the type of mining that any prospecting may unveil Environmental campaigners have said they will vigorously resist any attempts to begin mining in east Clare, after the Department of the Environment approved a licence for a company to […]

Another voice has spoken out against the government plan to excavate vast swathes of heritage landscape in the rush to mine lithium. And this voice is not simply concerned with heritage; it joins a number of ‘expert warnings’ that lithium is not the answer to Portugal’s path towards decarbonisation . It belongs to former environmental […]

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 planned $3.34 billion lithium mine. The development is part of Serbia’s efforts to introduce investment and boost economic growth, but activists have staged protests and blocked roads including in […]

A ramp up of the supply of critical raw materials (CRMs) is essential for the world’s energy transition. Wind and solar, batteries, digitalisation, transport and hydrogen cannot meet their targets without it. The EU defines 30 minerals as critical. To give one example, the global deficits in lithium supplies could surge more than 60-fold to 950,000 […]