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Analytics
The Critical Raw Materials Act has seen mixed success in European mining, with some projects advancing while others face legal and financial hurdles, highlighting deeper systemic issues.
Companies & Organisations
Teesside is set to build one of Europe's largest lithium refineries, creating 1,700 jobs and contributing £1 billion to the local economy.
Analytics
Perran Moon MP emphasises the importance of domestic tin production in a Westminster debate, highlighting its cultural significance and potential for job creation amid global shortages.
Analytics
Public finance mechanisms can incentivise responsible critical mineral supply, addressing environmental and social risks while scaling production to meet rising global demand.
Companies & Organisations
Nyrstar Budel and VDL Groep collaborate to enhance Europe's critical minerals supply, supporting EU goals for domestic capacity and sustainable manufacturing.
Companies & Organisations
Vulcan Energy has completed a Preliminary Feasibility Study for Project Ludwig, enhancing lithium and geothermal production in Germany with robust economic projections and increased mineral resources.
Policies and Regulation
Opinion: Portugal long awaited National Exploration Programme to comply with EU regulations and enhance its role in the critical raw materials sector.
Analytics
Turkey's Beylikova deposit is estimated at 694 million tons of resource, potentially the world's second-largest rare earth site after China's Bayan Obo — yet without international standard certification, it remains outside formal…
Analytics
A seemingly negligible 0.5% deviation in recovery efficiency at a large-scale mining operation can translate into hundreds of thousands, even millions, of dollars in lost revenue over a project's lifetime.
Analytics
Turkey's mining law changed only once between 1954 and 1985, and once more between 1985 and 2004 — but since 2004, it has undergone 31 amendments in just 24 years, undermining the…