Protesters packed the streets leading to Terazije square, waving Serbian flags and chanting "You will not dig," and "Rio Tinto leave Serbia!" Sign up here. Government officials said the protests were ...

June 16 (Reuters) - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is preparing to give Rio Tinto (RIO.L), opens new tab the green light to develop Europe's largest lithium mine two years after Belgrade called ...

JADAR VALLEY, Serbia — Vladan Jakovljevic’s bees are angry. As he slowly lifts a cover from atop one of dozens of hives, they swarm, one of them stinging him in the cheek. He calls it a “bee kiss.” ...

Rio Tinto will stop working on the development of a lithium mine in Serbia two decades after first discovering a deposit on the site, with the Jadar project set to fall victim to the cost-cutting and ...

Rio Tinto Zinc is quietly trying to restart a $2.4 billion plan to dig for lithium in the Jadar region of Serbia two years after the original mining permit was canceled in response to a massive ...

Mining giant Rio Tinto hired an Israeli campaign strategist in 2021 to promote its unpopular plan for a lithium mine in Serbia, despite due diligence identifying him as a ‘potential government ...

A Rio Tinto mine that Europe sees as a critical source for electric vehicle batteries has been the target of enormous protests. “I don’t need green cars. I need green apples and green grass,” said one ...

Serbia and EU signed a memorandum of understanding on critical raw materials that will enable a major lithium-mining project, which has sparked major protests, to go ahead despite environmental ...