Gruzija

17.September 2025 Olivia Ackland, Ingrid Gerkama, Stefano Verđine

Victims of black gold

Chiatura, a town in Georgia, lies on manganese. And manganese is needed for car batteries and weapons, so it's at a premium. The lives of the people from this region are not at stake - their houses are collapsing, the water is poisoned, and they are sick and fighting desperately

Rio Tinto

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.

Environment

22.October 2024 BIRN

BIRN: Forgotten and hollow Cadastre of mining waste

The Mining Waste Cadastre project cost 2,1 million euros, but until recently only scant data on 41 abandoned mining waste dumps was available on the internet application. There was no data on the landfills of active mines on it

Opening of mines in Europe: According to the new law, it can be done in two years

Strategic raw materials

23.May 2024. Demostat

EU law on critical raw materials: Nobody has what the Serbs have - lithium

The European Commission claims that one of the priorities of the Growth Plan for the Western Balkans is the integration of the region into European industrial supply chains and that this could bring great benefits to Serbia. It should be emphasized that we have an abundance of what everyone desperately needs - lithium

Mining and energy

27.march 2024 Sanja Zrnić

There are 709 contaminated locations in Serbia, and only three mining inspectors

The Joint Research Center of the European Commission (JIC EK) announced that "the mining industry is the main source of soil pollution in the countries of the Western Balkans". In Serbia, there are 709 contaminated sites covering an area of ​​3.203,7 square kilometers, and the republic's mining inspectors can be counted on the fingers of one hand