The Ministry of Environmental Protection announced that it has issued a decision by which the company Sava Exploration determines the scope and content of the Environmental Impact Assessment Study for the Jadar Project. The project refers to the underground exploitation of lithium and boron deposits, ore enrichment plants, as well as tailings disposal.
Mining activities should take place on plots within the cadastral municipalities of Gornje Nedeljice, Brnjac, Veliko Selo, Jarebice, Slatina, Stupnica and Surica (the territory of the town of Loznica and the municipality of Krupanj).
They are, as it is added, in the scope of subzones and zones of mining activities according to the Spatial Plan of the special purpose area for the realization of the project of exploitation and processing of jadarite minerals in the Jadar deposit.
The announcement of the ministry also states the coordinates of the turning points of the Jadar exploitation field.
“The interested public can inspect the content of the decision every working day from 11 am to 2 pm in the premises of the Ministry of Environmental Protection in Belgrade, 1 Omladinskih brigada Street, room 428 and on the website,” the statement added.
An appeal may be lodged against this decision with the Government of Serbia, through this body, within 15 days from the day of receipt of the decision, ie from the day of informing the interested public about the decision.
Citizens and environmental activists, as well as representatives of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU), are protesting against the project of the company Rio Tinto, which is the owner of Rio Sava Exploration, Nova Ekonomija reports.
