Jadar mine

BELGRADE - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Friday in Belgrade the Jadar lithium mining project was good for Serbia and the prospects of economic development across the region, and noted that the highest environmental protection standards would be observed in the process.

BELGRADE - The Serbian government announced on Tuesday it had adopted a new directive to restore the legal order concerning the Jadar lithium mining project to the state it was in prior to a directive that has recently been ruled unconstitutional.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday Serbia was facing many political challenges not of its own making that it was not responsible for in any way, and added that there was a plan to weaken the country economically, above all, by slowing down its European integration process.

Hundreds of locals from western Serbia, but also activists and opposition politicians from other parts of the country, gathered on Thursday in Loznica, western Serbia, to protest against amendments to the local urban plan to meet the needs of a lithium mining investment by the Anglo-Australian multinational corporation Rio Tinto.

Serbia's estimated deposits are the largest in Europe and the insatiable appetite for batteries that power everything from iPhones to Tesla cars is prompting the likes of Rio Tinto Group to study the viability of mining it.
News portal Deutsche Wirtschaftsnachrichten writes about the lithium wealth in Serbia, carried by portal serbia-energy.eu.