Jadar
Potentially one of Europe's biggest lithium sources, and one of its most contested.
- Material
- Lithium
- Stage
- Planned project
- Place
- Loznica, Serbia
- Operator
- Rio Tinto
- Coordinates
- 44.53° N, 19.22° E (approximate)
- Expected online
- 2028 at the earliest
Seen from orbit
- Heat
- 0 of the last 7 days and 0 of the last 30 had furnace-hot pixels within 6 km (NASA FIRMS).
Signals show activity, not output. They are measured automatically and can be affected by weather, terrain and fires.
Facts
- Jadarite, a lithium-boron mineral, is known only from here
- Resource of 118 Mt at 1.8% lithium oxide
- Licences revoked in January 2022 after protests; Serbia's Constitutional Court overturned that in July 2024
- EU–Serbia raw-materials memorandum signed in July 2024