The expansion of mining activities continues in Serbia with significant quantities of various metals and non-metals hidden in Serbian mines and more copper, lead, zinc, silver and gold are currently being exploited. Mining industry experts note that it is important that, in parallel with the opening of new mines, a support industry is being developed ... 
How big is Serbia’s mineral wealth?
Anastasia Bogdanova | February 11, 2020 The expansion of mining activities continues in Serbia with significant quantities of various metals and non-metals hidden in Serbian mines and more copper, lead, zinc, silver and gold are currently being exploited. Mining industry experts note that it is important that, in parallel with the opening of new mines, a support industry is being developed ... 
In the upper zone of the Chukar Peka deposit near Bor, 44.7 million tonnes of ore with high copper content and associated gold and silver content have been certified, said Minister of Mining and Energy Aleksandar Antic. The minister said that the Chinese company Zidjin is intensively working on a project to open the Chukar ... 
The lamps on the helmets of the mine workers in the womb of the mine and the “Rudnik” flotation on the mountain of the same name, the “roof” of Sumadija, will not be extinguished for at least a decade, and probably much longer. It is guaranteed by new reserves of lead and zinc ore of ... 
China’s Zijin Mining Group plans to invest 200 million euro ($221 million) in revamping and expanding the current capacities of Serbian copper mining and smelting complex Bor which it controls, local media reported. Zijin is currently drafting a project for the planned overhaul and for the planned expansion of the smelter’s annual capacity of 80,000 ... 
In the mining sector this year, the number of employees is seven percent higher than last year. The government estimates that strategic projects at RTB alone with the new Chukaru Peki and Jadar mine will bring in $ 3 billion in new investments. The World Bank also confirmed that Serbia has huge potential for growth ... 
Serbia’s central bank bought nine tons of gold in October, raising its reserves of the precious metal on the advice of President Aleksandar Vucic. The biggest former Yugoslav republic is following Hungary and Poland, where officials boosted gold reserves in 2018 to create a bulwark against crisis. Central Bank Governor Jorgovanka Tabakovic, a member of ... 
With the realization of the mining projects of “Chukaru Peki” and “Jadar” in Serbia, the share of mining in GDP can jump from the current two percent to five percent, said the World Bank spokesman in Serbia Stephen Ndegwa, who estimated that Serbian mining the sector has enormous potential for growth and new jobs in ... 
Tethyan Resource has announced the discovery of an outcropping gold porphyry system on the western side of is Kremice project, south-western Serbia. The company says channel sampling of a large area of exposed stockwork veining at Kremice West returned consistent mineralisation, with individual samples grading up to 0.68 g/t gold and 0.21% copper. Tethyan has ... 
British-Australian mining group Rio Tinto has so far invested $200 million (181.5 million euro) in the exploration of the Jadar lithium borate project in Serbia and plans to make a final investment decision in 2021, the Serbian government said. The company has drilled about 300 wells and processed more than 200 kilometers of core since ... 
Chinese company Zijin, owner of the upstream zone of the future Chukaru Peki Copper and Gold underground site, has prepared an offer to buy off part of it from American company Freeport McMoRan. The plan of the Chinese company Zijin, which is also a strategic partner of RTB Bor, is to invest almost half a ... 
Lithium borate reserves at the site near Loznica have been estimated roughly at 135 million tons. Vladimir Simić, a professor of the Faculty of Mining and Geology, says that underground mining operations will be conducted to mine out these reserves.” There should be no problematic effects, because I suppose as with most borates and similar ... 
China’s Zijin Mining Group plans to build a copper smelter at the Majdanpek open pit mine in Serbia, energy minister Aleksandar Antic has said. “We expect Zijin to apply for approval of the construction works by the end of this year. We hope that by then, first activity on the project will be launched,” Antic ...