Lithium ore mining

Savannah Resources, the company that has the lithium concession in Boticas, can resume the work it had interrupted following a legal injunction filed by some landowners. The resumption of works [...]

British mining company Savannah needs almost 600 hectares of land to pursue its lithium ore mining concession. The company has already bought 100 plots of land, but there are 472 parcels that it [...]

Portuguese energy company Galp has decided not to proceed with the construction of the Aurora project, a lithium refinery in Setúbal in partnership with Northvolt, after the Swedish company [...]

US expresses interest in supporting lithium exploration in Portugal. The US administration is interested in finding partners, customers and funding for all lithium exploration projects in [...]

Portugal’s lithium sector has an expected investment of around €4.6Bn over the next few years. From five projects underway, the Savannah mine in Boticas expects to bring in a total of €390 [...]

Portugal’s high tax system could make it difficult for the energy company Galp to invest in decarbonising the oil refinery at Sines and develop a lithium refinery. The company says that the [...]

The enthusiasm in the European Union (EU) and the US to launch strategic industrial programs has significantly increased in the post-Covid era. One of these, and perhaps the most ambitious and [...]

Portugal’s Prime Minister António Costa has handed in his resignation to Portugal’s Head of State, President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, as the PS socialist government he has led since 2015 has been [...]