Serbia’s mining industry could expand to 5% of national output by 2023 if foreign investors keep commitments to plough millions of dollars into copper and lithium production, its Mining Minister said. The sector currently accounts for 1% of Serbia’s gross domestic product. But since 2000, when a decade of isolation of the former Yugoslavia ended, […]

The High Court quashed a government decision to turn down a new open cast coal mine in north east England. Campaigners called on the government to again reject an application for an open cast coal mine at Druridge Bay in Northumberland after its original decision was overturned by a High Court judge. Banks Mining wants to […]

Euro Sun Mining Inc. announce that its mining license for the Rovina Valley Project has now been published in the Official Monitor of the Romanian Government. Decision regarding the approval of the Concession License no. 18.174 / 2015 of the mining activity of copper ore containing gold in the Rovina perimeter, Hunedoara County, concluded between […]

Aim-listed W Resources commenced the first of a three-stage tungsten and tin production programme with the early start-up of concentrate production at the La Parilla mine, in Spain. The company has started concentrate production from an existing concentrator, using tailings feed. Production is expected to reach 10 t a month to 15 t a month […]

Breaches of contractual obligations totaling AMD 573 million ($1.2 million) by 127 companies have been found as part of the comprehensive analysis in Armenia’s mining industry, Garegin Baghramyan, the acting energy infrastructures and natural resources minister, said Wednesday at a news conference. In his words, AMD 134 million (around $275,700) of the mentioned amount is […]

Canadian-based European Electric Metals said it has engaged the services of the Nordmin Group to undertake a site inspection of Skroska nickel-cobalt mine in Elbasan region in Albania. Nordmin will comment on whether the existing underground workings and mine equipment appear to be able to be used if the operations at the Skroska mine are […]

Poland, host of the upcoming COP24 climate conference, has long had a love affair with coal. Can it say goodbye and commit to renewables? Poland’s love affair with coal goes way back. For decades coal was the favorite for energy: mined locally, and cheap. In those days, the environment was pretty low on the agenda. […]

Palladium has enjoyed the best market performance among major metals in 2018, thanks in large part to tough new Chinese car pollution standards which have pushed automotive producers to install catalytic converters which contain the metal in their cars. Palladium prices have appreciated over 9 percent on the New York Stock Exchange year-to-date, hitting just […]

Medgold Resources Corp. completed the planned drilling for 2018 at the Tlamino gold project in southern Serbia. The exploration programme at Tlamino is fully funded by Fortuna Silver Mines Inc., and directed by a joint Fortuna-Medgold technical committee pursuant to the terms of the Tlamino option agreement announced on 7 March 2017. Assays have been […]