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Tungsten’s Return Puts Europe’s Mining and Defense Supply Chains Back in Focus
Tungsten is re-emerging in Europe as a strategic metal as defense spending rises and concerns grow about reliance on Chinese supply. The shift is drawing renewed…
Europe’s Mining Exploration Faces Growing ESG and Social Resistance, Reshaping Financing Decisions
Across Europe, mining exploration is increasingly judged not just by drill results but by environmental approval, community acceptance, and political legitimacy—factors that can decide a project’s…
Banks are linking ESG, CBAM and environmental compliance into a single financing framework
Across Europe and increasingly throughout South East Europe, banks are no longer treating ESG, CBAM and environmental permitting as separate compliance categories. From 2026 onward, they are…
Europe’s Lithium Push Meets a Wall of Financing Reality as Investors Demand Profitability
Europe’s drive for domestic lithium independence is colliding with investor expectations that high-cost mining and refining projects must show a credible route to long-term profitability. Without…
Serbia’s industrial shift is being rewritten by electricity, carbon rules and AI power demand
Serbia’s export competitiveness is increasingly tied to how reliably and cleanly electricity is sourced, as CBAM pressure meets a power market showing more volatility. At the…
Serbia’s Mining Boom Enters a Second Exploration Wave, Broadening Beyond Copper and Gold
After an initial surge of global interest tied to the Timok copper-gold belt, Serbia is now drawing a second wave of foreign exploration investment focused on…
Serbia weighs power crunch as AI data centers move from tech add-on to energy priority
As Serbia debates how to expand electricity supply ahead of large-scale digital buildout, growing discussions suggest the country may need at least 3,000 MW of new…
Serbia’s coal plants rack up outages, underscoring reliability risk for a power system still built on lignite
Serbia’s coal-fired fleet logged 79 unplanned outages since the start of 2026, leaving up to 1,865 MW of capacity unavailable at times. The disruptions expose how…
Serbia’s renewable surge faces a storage reality check as negative prices spread
As Serbia’s wind and solar buildout accelerates, investors are increasingly concluding that battery storage is becoming necessary to protect project economics amid negative pricing and intraday…
ASX Junior Miners Return to Europe as Critical Minerals Strategy Reshapes Global Exploration
Australian junior mining companies are increasingly redirecting exploration budgets back into Europe after years of focusing on Africa and Latin America. The shift is being driven…