{"id":1268,"date":"2022-05-05T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marssadrine.org\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2025-05-11T13:38:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T13:38:53","slug":"rio-tinto-keen-for-talks-to-revive-serbian-lithium-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marssadrine.org\/en\/rio-tinto-keen-for-talks-to-revive-serbian-lithium-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Rio Tinto keen for talks to revive Serbian lithium project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Serbia blocked mine after mass environmental protests<\/li><li>Rio says Jadar has &#8220;impeccable&#8221; environmental credentials<\/li><li>Rio says Jadar offers big economic opportunity for Serbia<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>MELBOURNE, May 5 (Reuters) &#8211; Rio Tinto&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/companies\/RIO.AX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">(RIO.AX)<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/companies\/RIO.L\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">(RIO.L)<\/a>&nbsp;is eager to reopen talks with the Serbian government about its $2.4 billion Jadar lithium project, which was blocked ahead of the country&#8217;s recent election, the company&#8217;s chief executive and chairman said on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Serbian government revoked licenses for the Jadar project in January after massive protests sparked by environmental concerns about the planned mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We very much hope that we will be able to discuss all of the options with the government of Serbia now the elections are out of the way,&#8221; Thompson told shareholders at the company&#8217;s Australian annual meeting, in Rio Tinto&#8217;s first public comments following the election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the whole article go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/rio-tinto-keen-restart-talks-stalled-serbian-lithium-project-2022-05-05\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reuters.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serbia blocked mine after mass environmental protests Rio says Jadar has &#8220;impeccable&#8221; environmental credentials Rio says Jadar offers big economic opportunity for Serbia MELBOURNE, May 5 (Reuters) &#8211; Rio Tinto&nbsp;(RIO.AX)(RIO.L)&nbsp;is eager to reopen talks with the Serbian government about its $2.4 billion Jadar lithium project, which was blocked ahead of the country&#8217;s recent election, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-info-and-news-en","8":"category-foreign-media"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marssadrine.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marssadrine.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marssadrine.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marssadrine.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marssadrine.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marssadrine.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1271,"href":"https:\/\/marssadrine.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions\/1271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marssadrine.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marssadrine.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marssadrine.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marssadrine.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}