Rio Tinto invests in major Chilean lithium project
Santiago (AFP) - Chile's state-owned copper giant Codelco announced a partnership on Monday with British-Australian miner Rio Tinto to extract ...
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Australia to stockpile critical minerals in strategic reserve
Sydney (AFP) - Australia will stockpile critical minerals in a new strategic reserve, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Thursday, as ...
Spain eyes boom in ‘neglected’ strategic mining sector
Madrid (AFP) - Spain is aiming to tap its unexplored strategic mining resources as the European Union urgently seeks to ...
Ukraine’s earth riches are rare and difficult to reach
Paris (AFP) - Ukraine's soils hold some five percent of the world's mineral resources, which is what US President Donald ...
Nigeria’s lithium mining Eldorado sparks concerns
Nasarawa (Nigeria) (AFP) - At an open-cast mine, Abdullahi Ibrahim Danjija carefully chisels away at a hunk of whitish rock ...
‘Rare earths’ for aid: Ukraine’s minerals threatened by war
Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - US President Donald Trump has signalled he could trade aid to Kyiv in its fight against ...
Lithium-rich Bolivia lags behind in race to mine key metal
La Paz (AFP) - In a patch of South America rich in lithium, used to make batteries for electric cars ...
Lithium-rich Bolivia lags behind in race to mine key metal
La Paz (AFP) - In a patch of South America rich in lithium, used to make batteries for electric cars ...
Bolivia announces $1 bn deal with China to build lithium plants
La Paz (AFP) - Bolivia said Tuesday it had signed a $1 billion deal with China's CBC, a subsidiary of ...
Huge US lithium mine gets govt approval
Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) - An enormous lithium mine in the Nevada desert was granted final government approval Thursday ...
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