Miner’s Social Investment Fund to Support Northern KZN Farmers - KZN Industrial & Business News

Miner’s social investment fund to support northern KZN farmers - KZN Industrial & Business News

RIO Tinto has entered into a two-year partnership with the Lima Rural Development Foundation (Lima) to improve the livelihoods of 200 farmers across ten Traditional Authority Areas in KwaZulu-Natal’s King Cetshwayo District.The R6.9 million investment, delivered through the Rio Tinto Social Investment Fund, capitalises on Lima’s 25+ years of agricultural expertise to remove market barriers, enhance farmers’ productivity, and drive sustainable ec…

It corresponds to the giant Rio Tinto, the second largest mining company in the world, and is located in Salta. This Tuesday afternoon, Daniel González, Secretary Coordinator of Energy and Mining of the Ministry of Economy, announced that the first project of the RIGI for mining was approved: it is for lithium and for more than USD 2.5 billion. It is an investment of the giant Rio Tinto, the second mining company in the world, and is located in …

This is an initiative of Rio Tinto, one of the largest mining companies in the world and the country's leading lithium producer.

It is already approved for the RIGI (the incentive regime for large investments), the first mining project. It is the Litio Strategic Export Project in Rincón, which the company Río Tinto has in Salta. For three other projects presented, irregularities were found and in official offices believe that they will not only be rejected but that they see few chances that they can return to present themselves correctly. That is, they would leave the rac…

Argentine authorities gave Brussels the green light for the exploitation of lithium. The affected communities, from Jujuy and Mendoza, put red light on it. Salinas Grandes in the lithium triangle between Argentina, Chile and Bolivia. Source: DW «From the Salinas Grandes and the Guayatoc Lagoon, in Jujuy, along with the representatives of Catamarca and Mendoza we come to say that it is not as our governors told in these same spaces. They said the…