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Australian mining company Rio Tinto should ensure Serbia’s approval of the “Jadar” project, which will depend on a study of the project’s environmental impact, Mining and Energy Minister Dubravka Đedović Handanović said today.
She told Reuters the approval process could take two years.
“It depends on our speed. We have lost two years. We could have finished first in this tournament,” Đedović Handanović said, according to Tanjug .
She rejected criticism from activists that the Jadar project would cause massive land and water pollution.
“The arguments put forward are aimed at disrupting the streets under the guise of ecological concern,” she claimed.
According to her, the Jadar project has reserves of 158 million tonnes of lithium, or about 17% of Europe’s reserves of lithium, which is used to make electric vehicle (EV) batteries.
The Minister of Mines and Energy added that if the Jadar project is approved, the mine is expected to produce 58,000 tons of lithium per year, enough to produce 1.1 million electric vehicles.
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