Savannah Resources submits revised lithium mining plan for Boticas
But lithium deposits nationally not such a ‘big deal’ News today from State news agency Lusa is that Savannah Resources – the British based company that five years ago set
National group gets green light for open-pit/ underground lithium mine in Montalegre
Local people in uproar plan new demo Lusorecursos Portugal Lithium – a company with some questions hanging over it – has been given the green-light for the exploration of lithium
Montalegre demo focuses on “post lithium mining cemetery”
“The quality of our potatoes will be different, the quality of the smoking and our pigs will be different” Vehement opponents to plans for a lithium mine in the World
Montalegre prepares for new lithium protests
Civic movement is fighting plans for open-pit/ underground mines and refinery Civic movement Montalegre Com Vida has called another demonstration, this time for Saturday – the day of the area’s
First lithium refinery to be in Setúbal
… and running by end of 2025 Portugal’s first lithium refinery will be in Setúbal, the Galp/ Northvolt consortium have revealed. The news today follows the announcement late last year
Lithium Wars: civic movements ‘consolidate’
SOS Platform intends to “guarantee timely information to populations” Six civic movements contesting mining in the ‘Entre Douro e Minho’ region have created an SOS Platform to “consolidate the union”
Municipalities mobilise against looming lithium auction
Municipalities have begun mobilising against government plans to forge ahead with lithium prospection in six areas of the centre and north of the country (click here). The first to advance
PAN speaks out against Portugal’s loony-tune lithium policy
People Animals Nature party PAN has added its voice to the clamour that the last government’s policy regarding lithium extraction “make no sense”, particularly in protected areas, with heritage landscape
“Lithium is not the answer”, specialist alerts
Another voice has spoken out against the government plan to excavate vast swathes of heritage landscape in the rush to mine lithium. And this voice is not simply concerned with
Galp and Northvolt confirm partnership to construct Europe’s largest lithium plant in Portugal – but it may not be in Sines
Today was the day for the official announcement of the €700 million Galp- Northvolt joint venture agreement to build Europe’s largest lithium plant in Portugal. Yesterday everything pointed to the