Rio Tinto

Project "Jadar"

21.May 2026. CI

"They won't be able to anymore": The state is seizing land and building a gas pipeline for Rio Tinto?

Expropriation is coming to Gornje Nedeljice with the machines this time, according to the locals. Everything indicates that the gas pipeline that was previously planned together with the lithium mine is being built. And if there are no mines, why is a gas pipeline being built?

06.May 2026. B. B.

Aboriginal people blame Rio Tinto for drying up a spring they consider sacred

Aborigines blame Rio Tinto for years of overuse for drying up a spring they have considered sacred for thousands of years

The team of the "March from the Drina" association announced that the Commission currently recognizes a strategic project that no longer exists in an operational sense and that keeping it on the list is indefensible under EU law.

Project "Jadar"

05.December 2025 B. B.

NGOs demand that "Jadar" be removed from the list of EU strategic projects

The team of the "March from the Drina" association announced that the Commission currently recognizes a strategic project that no longer exists in an operational sense and that keeping it on the list is indefensible under EU law

The "Jadar" project has become one of the EU's strategic projects

Project Jadar

13.November 2025 IN THE

Rio Tinto has "frozen" the lithium exploitation project in Serbia

Mining giant Rio Tinto has suspended activities on a lithium mining project in the Yadar River Valley, according to Bloomberg, citing an internal company memo. The project, which for years caused resistance from the local community and environmental movements, was placed under the status of "care and maintenance"

Relationships and acquaintances

21.October 2025 IN THE

BIRN: Who is Vučić's "friend" Asaf Eisin, who improved the image of Rio Tinto in Serbia?

Israeli political propagandist Asaf Eisin, a close associate and "friend" of President Aleksandar Vučić, was hired to lead a strategic communication campaign for the Rio Tinto company in the midst of protests against the Yadar project in 2021, BIRN reveals. Internal company documents indicate that Rio Tinto was aware of Eisin's connection with Vučić, but the engagement was approved anyway

Mining

19.June 2025 KS

Rio Tinto pays $139 million to avoid court

Rio Tinto has agreed to pay $138,75 million to avoid legal action over claims it defrauded investors by hiding problems with an underground expansion of a copper and gold mine in Mongolia.

Lithium mining

06.June 2025 MS

Heating up the "Jadar" project: EU strategy and resistance in Serbia

The European Commission made a decision to include the "Jadar" project in projects of strategic importance. What reactions have been received so far? What does the government say, what does the profession say, and what do the activists say? And how many citizens of Serbia oppose this project

Project "Jadar"

05.June 2025 B. B.

Rio Tinto reviews Jadar project costs

The status of the strategic project requires compliance with EU standards for environmental protection and human rights, which will be reflected in the final capital cost

Project "Jadar"

04.June 2025 B. B.

Brnabić: Good news regarding the "Jadar" project

"The claims of certain media and parties that Serbia will be a European colony for mining turned out to be incorrect," says the President of the Serbian Parliament, Ana Brnabić.

Project "Jadar"

04.June 2025 Bojan Bednar

Silent: The "Jadar" project is being pushed by a "bunch of hypocrites" from the EU

The European Commission's decision to include the "Jadar" project among the EU's strategic projects is "proof that it is a bunch of hypocrites, actually greedy people, who have been supporting Aleksandar Vučić all these twelve years," the president of the Ecological Uprising, Aleksandar Jovanović Ćuta, told Vreme.

Project "Jadar"

04.June 2025 B. B.

The "Jadar" project is classified as a strategic project of the European Union

Out of a total of 49 projects outside the member states of the European Union registered for the status of a project of strategic importance, the EU opted for thirteen - among them the "Jadar" project of Rio Tinta

Economy

26.May 2025. MS

New economy: Rio Tinto set its sights on Serbian copper as well

The choice of Rio Tinto's new CEO will likely depend on how adept he is at finding scarce copper. And the company Rio Tinto Dunav Exploration has been cooperating for a long time with the Chinese in Bor, where a new amount of this metal was recently found

After the buyout of the company Rio Tinto: Part of Gornji Nedeljice

Mining of lithium

03.April 2025. NR

Professors from the West are asking the EU to block Serbian lithium

A hundred Serbian professors from Western universities demand that the EU get rid of the "Jadar" project and warn of unforeseeable consequences

Lithium

27.march 2025 KS

Rio Tinto: No further steps in Serbia without proof of safety

After the decision of the European Commission not to include "Jadar" among the strategic projects, the Rio Tinto company also announced itself

Project Jadar

04.February 2025. IN THE

CINS: Nature protection conditions issued to Rio Tinto without expert consent

The Center for Investigative Journalism of Serbia (CINS) reveals that the experts of the Institute for Nature Protection were against the conditions that this institution issued to Rio Tinto. "...There are no conditions that will prevent the irreversible destruction of this area (at the locations of the exploitation field and the landfill) as well as the habitats of numerous species", it was written in one of the emails obtained by CINS.

Project Jadar

14.January 2025 Dijana Roscic / DW

"Spiegel": "Right-wing environmentalists" and the lithium treasure in the Jadra valley

The Jadra Valley, once synonymous with rural idyll, is now at the center of conflict over one of the largest lithium deposits in the world. While the company Rio Tinto promises ecologically sustainable exploitation, a strange alliance of environmentalists and nationalists organizes resistance, writes the German newspaper "Spiegel".

Project Jadar

18.December 2024 IN THE

Landing on the Rio Tinto cocktail party: Intimidation or a direct message from citizens

Representatives of the "Ne damo Jadar" association broke into the Hilton Hotel, where the Rio Tinto company's New Year's cocktail was held, to tell them that, as they said, "they will not dig". The company assessed that "opponents of the 'Jadar' project are trying to dispute the right of that company to operate in Serbia under conditions that apply to all others with unfounded accusations."

One of the world's powerhouses: Rio Tinto

Mining of lithium

13.December 2024 TS

Rio Tinto: Multibillion-dollar investment in lithium

Following new investments in Argentina, Rio Tinto is on track to become the world's third largest lithium producer. The company is also counting on its Jadar project in Serbia to meet most of Europe's lithium needs

Project Jadar

19.November 2024 DW / Nemanja Rujević

Director of Rio Tinto: Protests are delaying lithium mining in Serbia

Rio Tinto CEO Jakob Stausholm denies claims by activists that the water in the valley will be contaminated with heavy metals, and notes that such "false information" is being spread on social networks. "As a company, we are not adequately prepared to deal with such misinformation," Stausholm said

Protest

01.November 2024 Dragan Todorovic

Valjevo: Instead of a protest, candles were lit for the victims in Novi Sad

The planned protest in Valjevo against Eurolithium turned into giving mail to the victims in Novi Sad, and announcing the liberation of Serbia.

Personal attitude

30.October 2024 Slobodan N. Vukosavić

Silencing electrical engineering

By groundlessly reducing the "Jadar" enterprise to a mine, the fact is overlooked that the only reason it is being discussed may be the profit from the expected production in the field of electrical engineering. Depriving electrical technicians of the right to reason about it narrows the possibility of a conscientious and comprehensive check and increases the risk

The European Commission

25.October 2024 B. B.

The EU will protect Serbia's beautiful nature

The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said that Serbia can be sure that the EU, as far as lithium mining is concerned, will respect and preserve its "wonderful nature".

Zlatko Kokanović Photo: Zoran Mrđa/FoNet

Project "Jadar"

24.October 2024 MJ

Protest against lithium mining in Čačak: Kokanović announced new blockades

The well-known slogan "You won't dig" was shouted on Thursday at a protest against lithium mining in Čačak. Activist Zlatko Kokanović announced new blockades across Serbia

Project "Jadar"

24.October 2024 MJ

Tightening the rhetoric: Lithium as a matter of life and death

From rioting in the streets to parliamentary debate, every possible resource has been used in the fight against lithium mining. Actors are still one of the harshest critics of the "Jadar" project, and some of them are ready to, as they say, lose their lives because of lithium. Has lithium become a matter of life and death?

"Jadar" project

23.October 2024 MJ

Protest against lithium mining in Čačak

Another in a series of protests against lithium mining will be held on Thursday in Čačak, the SEOS organization announced.

Abuse of artificial intelligence

23.October 2024 BV

"The root of the attack on Kusturica is lithium"

Celebrated director Emir Kusturica requests that Pink not use his character with the help of artificial intelligence. Lawyer Zdenko Tomanović, whose office represents Kusturica, talks to "Vreme" about the use of deepfakes in a vulgarized society.

Project Jadar

21.October 2024 B. B.

The European left called on the Government of Serbia and the EU to abandon lithium mines

The European left emphasized that the message of tens of thousands of citizens of Serbia at mass protests against the destructive project of the Rio Tinto company is clear: the health of our planet and the well-being of communities must take precedence over corporate profits