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Serbia’s Jadar lithium deposit sparks controversy: Rio Tinto’s mining project faces strong opposition

Serbia is home to one of the largest lithium deposits in the world, and Rio Tinto plans to exploit this key resource for battery production. However, as reported by the German magazine Spiegel, an unusual alliance of environmentalists and nationalists is organizing resistance against the project. "On that sunny November day, the native village of beekeeper Stefan Jakovljević did not seem like a battlefield in the global raw materials conflict. It looked like a typical rural idyll. Jakovljević checks his…