They "never believed the lithium mine had been scrapped for good". Meanwhile, China is also "looking to gain a foothold" in the Jadar region, said Euronews. "There is a complete lack of trust in ...

But somehow, we have continued to fight.” In early 2004, a group of geologists working in Jadar had discovered a new mineral with the chemical formula sodium-lithium-borosilicate-hydroxide, soon ...

The country’s parliament, however, is still debating a proposal to ban lithium and borate mining and exploration. If passed into law, this would effectively put an end to the contested Jadar ...

"This land is nobody's property, it belongs to our children.” Exploration of the lithium and boron deposits in the Jadar valley has been done by multinational Rio Tinto mining company for 20 years.

View over the Jadar basin, Serbia. The buried lithium-boron resource is formed of subhorizontal layers in former lake sediments up to several hundred metres below the Earth’s surface. Focus: Informing ...

The EU’s green transition relies on it, too. The Jadar project is a significant lithium and boron mining initiative located in Serbia, a non-EU member state. It aims to extract lithium from the ...