Rio Tinto's Jadar lithium project is facing opposition in Serbia, as are other miners' projects around the world.

Elevated electricity costs caused by a wholesale power crunch this year have forced industries from zinc to steel to curtail production.

If the EU is going to persuade its citizens of its green credentials, policy-makers may have to get into the dirty side of mining, writes Andy Home.

For decades, geothermal plants in the Upper Rhine Valley have been pumping up hot fluids from beneath the earth’s surface to generate electricity, but the facilities never bothered about the lithium in the brine.

New South Wales greenlights Newcrest’s Cadia expansion.