Germany Chancellor plans lithium deal with Serbia after Rio ruling
Olaf Scholz plans to visit Serbia this week to secure supplies of lithium that are critical for the nation’s energy transition and auto industry.
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IM’s Great Mines series has already looked in-depth at two very different mining groups – the long established and gold-focussed Newmont; and First Quantum, a diversified newcomer with its roots in DRC but growing rapidly through greenfield projects like Sentinel and well timed buy-outs of operations like Ravensthorpe. For our third series of Great Mines, we are looking at Lundin Mining, also a relative newcomer, but having built itself into one of the most solid mid-tier base metal mining groups, owning many of the major European assets in this sector including Neves Corvo, Zinkgruvan, Galmoy and Aguablanca. It is also the JV partner with Freeport in Tenke Fungurume in DRC, the largest and richest grade copper and cobalt operation globally. (more…)
