Mining

Portugal’s government has ripped up an iron ore mining concession granted to the UK’s Aethel Mining for mines at Torre de Moncorvo near Braganza. It said it withdrew the concession over “failing [...]

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 [...]

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 environmental agency APA has given the thumbs up for work to begin at a lithium ore mine in Montalegre to begin operations in 2027. And the Romano Mine’s refinery will be the first in [...]

The Portuguese Government says that Portugal can make a significant contribution across all phases of the value chain to meet the EU’s critical raw materials extraction strategy targets for 2023. [...]

The Portuguese natural gas and petroleum company Galp and Swedish energy company Northvolt have announced that British mining company Savannah may not be the only supplier of lithium at its new [...]

www.cedesa.pt The transition to clean energy needed to avert the worst effects of climate change could trigger an unprecedented demand for metals in the coming decades, requiring up to 3 billion [...]

The Portuguese energy company Galp has decided that its lithium ore refinery will be at Sines, 164 km south-west of Lisbon. After its CEO Andy Brown was vague about whether the refinery would [...]