The interest in developing lithium deposits in the Western Balkans is part of a wider push to exploit the mineral across Europe. Further north, European Metals Holdings is developing the Cinovec lithium and tin project in Czechia, which it says has the potential to be the lowest-cost hard rock lithium producer in the world.
The interest in developing lithium deposits in the Western Balkans is part of a wider push to exploit the mineral across Europe. Demand for the world’s lightest metal, lithium, is forecast to grow strongly in the coming decade as car manufacturers ramp up production of electric vehicles (EVs).
Asked about whether the company intends to source lithium materials from Serbia, founder and CEO Nemanja Mikać told Balkan Green Energy News that the plan is to import the commodities. ElevenEs requires lithium iron phosphate for cathodes, he stressed. Mikać noted that Rio Tinto’s project is on hold in Serbia.
But Vulcan Energy is actually developing the technology to extract lithium from geothermal water, without mining. The list seems to be incomplete, as there is a lithium mining project in the Czech Republic, for instance, and geothermal extraction efforts in Italy and the United Kingdom.
The transition to electric and hybrid vehicles is making lithium ion batteries a strategic technology, as other available solutions are still in their infancy. The administration in Brussels is counting on the countries that it sees as reliable to provide the critical materials for the energy transition.
Of note, the last one, which has the same name as a town in the northeast of Serbia, is actually in the country’s southwestern part. The Lopare project (early stage) is in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The areas under lithium exploration and those envisaged for exploration mostly have very fertile land and the population depends on agriculture.
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