Deal positions Rio Tinto among the world’s largest lithium miners, trailing only US-based Albemarle and Chile’s SQM.

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Last month, Serbia reinstated Rio’s licence to develop what would be Europe’s biggest lithium mine in the western Jadar region, two years after the previous government halted the licensing ...

The project would have an electrified underground fleet of mining equipment, which it claims would remove the carbonised ...