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Copper, lithium, cobalt and Rare Earth Elements (REEs) are among the 34 metals and minerals classified as critical by the European Union. The EU's aim for carbon neutrality by 2050, along with modern weaponry and the increasing digitalisation of daily life, hinges on technologies that require more metals than ever before, making these materials prized commodities. But while the EU already consumes approximately a quarter of the world’s raw materials, it produces only about 3% of them. Critical Raw MaterialsIn December 2023, the European Parliament adopted the Critical Raw Materials Act, which ...
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BHP has made an offer of £31 billion (around €36 billion) to merge with its smaller UK competitor Anglo American. The proposal comes after Anglo American, which had a $37.7 billion (€35.23 billion) market value at Wednesday's close, noted a 94% decrease in profits last year. As part of the takeover offer, BHP said it would offer Anglo's stockholders £25.08 per share. The deal, which would be one of the biggest mining mergers in years, could allow BHP to become the world's largest copper producer. Anglo has significant mines in South Africa and also operates sites in countries like Chile, Austr...
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A Polish coal mine near the Czech border will be able to continue operating for now, following the latest in a series of contradictory court rulings. After a long battle between the mine and environmentalists, the Turów mine has been allowed to operate under a temporary concession. "The decision of the Voivodship Administrative Court does not mean that the Turow energy complex will not be able to continue supplying electricity," said Andra Apanasionek, press officer PGE GiEK S.A. "The Turow mine is very carefully fulfilling its obligations under the environmental decision issued by the General...
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The 'lithium triangle' - spanning Argentina, Chile and Bolivia - is home to the largest reserve of lithium anywhere on Earth. This metal is key in the transition to net zero, used in electric car batteries, crucial to solar and wind energy and much more. But to extract it, mines suck water out of the white salt flats that cover this land. Land that has sustained thousands of Indigenous communities that have lived within here since before Elon Musk was but a glint in his mother's eye. As the world’s most powerful increasingly look to the triangle as a crucial puzzle piece in their plans, many w...
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Europe's mining sector has been on the decline for several decades now, due to a variety of factors: At the beginning of the last century, Europe accounted for about 40% of global mining output. Now, that's down to 3%. China's growing dominance of the battery and rare earth minerals production and supply chain has been an ongoing threat to Europe, as it significantly contributes to China's electric vehicle sector and makes the continent, and indeed other parts of the world, heavily dependent upon China for these metals and minerals. Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which prompted a who...
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Norway will not go ahead with plans to permit seabed mining of critical raw materials on its continental shelf if initial exploration suggests it cannot be done sustainably, a foreign ministry official told Euronews, as the European Commission prepares to sign a bilateral agreement with the Scandinavian state on the sought-after materials. State secretary Maria Varteressian affirmed Oslo’s support and intention to quickly ratify the United Nations Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) Treaty, also known as the High Seas Treaty, at an event in Brussels on Thursday (7 March)....
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Has Norway paved the way for deep-seabed mining following the Storting's vote on 9 January? The opening up 281,000 square kilometres (the equivalent of half of France's land area) to mineral prospecting, with a view to future exploitation, raises numerous concerns, such as the environmental impact on these unique ecosystems that are still so poorly understood. We would like to express, on behalf of the European Parliament, our deep concern to Norwegian decision-makers and citizens about this decision, which comes at a time when an increasing number of countries, scientists, associations, as we...
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On Sunday night, Rio de Janeiro surrendered to the festivities of its legendary carnival. The city's Sambadrome was dyed in every possible colour with the parades of samba schools. But one of them brought a very special, and unusual, plea to the show. Salgueiro's samba school paid tribute to the Yanomami people, the largest Indigenous group in Brazil, and called for a stronger fight against illegal mining on their land. Their floats showed a severed tree trunk, with a performer playing a Yanomami mother trying to protect her child, and other floats featured massive sculptures of Yanomami peopl...
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