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Commission Decision of 4.6.2025 recognising certain critical raw material projects located in third countries and in overseas countries or territories as Strategic Projects under Regulation (EU) 2024/1252 (C(2025) 3491 final)

Primary source

European Commission

OfficialenPublished 4 Jun 2025Accessed 23 Sep 2026

The decision itself, read in full 2026-09-23. Article 1 recognises the annexed projects as Strategic Projects; recital (10) states that each received the explicit approval of the third country or OCT concerned; Article 2 lists promoters with addresses (Tungsten West PLC: "Hemerdon Mine (Drakelands), PL7 5BS, Devon, United Kingdom").

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https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/document/download/808502c2-21c7-4ca8-855f-ff0b528f91c4_en?filename=C_2025_3491_1_EN_ACT_part1_v4.pdf

21 directly citing records. This is a snapshot of the curated public corpus, not a live document monitor or proof that every sentence in the linked document supports every aspect of a record. Status and implementation observations are distinct from executed agreements, cash disbursements and verified physical milestones. Private research and pending editor reviews are excluded.

Policy events

1 distinct published record with an explicit reference to this source.

  1. Commission Decision recognising 13 critical raw material projects in third countries and overseas countries or territories as Strategic Projects under the Critical Raw Materials Act

    evt-eu-crma-strategic-projects-2025-06

    • Cited policy event

Projects

7 distinct published records with an explicit reference to this source.

  1. Hemerdon tungsten and tin mine

    prj-gb-hemerdon

    • Field evidence: location
    • Field evidence: sponsors
  2. Sarytogan Graphite Project

    prj-kz-sarytogan

    • Field evidence: sponsors
  3. Maniry Graphite Mine Project

    prj-mg-maniry

    • Field evidence: sponsors
  4. Songwe Hill Rare Earths

    prj-mw-songwe-hill

    • Field evidence: sponsors
  5. Norgraph a/s and Greenland Graphite a/s

    prj-no-greenroc-norgraph

    • Field evidence: sponsors
  6. Balakhivka Graphite Deposit

    prj-ua-balakhivka

    • Field evidence: sponsors
  7. Zandkopsdrift

    prj-za-zandkopsdrift

    • Field evidence: sponsors

Project designations

7 distinct published records with an explicit reference to this source.

  1. Balakhivka Graphite Deposit

    dsg-eu-crma-balakhivka

    • Designation status observation
    • Field evidence: holders
    • Field evidence: programme
    • Field evidence: status
  2. Norgraph a/s and Greenland Graphite a/s

    dsg-eu-crma-greenroc-norgraph

    • Designation status observation
    • Field evidence: holders
    • Field evidence: programme
    • Field evidence: status
  3. Maniry Graphite Mine Project

    dsg-eu-crma-maniry

    • Designation status observation
    • Field evidence: holders
    • Field evidence: programme
    • Field evidence: status
  4. Sarytogan Graphite Project

    dsg-eu-crma-sarytogan

    • Designation status observation
    • Field evidence: holders
    • Field evidence: programme
    • Field evidence: status
  5. Songwe Hill Rare Earths

    dsg-eu-crma-songwe-hill

    • Designation status observation
    • Field evidence: holders
    • Field evidence: programme
    • Field evidence: status
  6. Tungsten West

    dsg-eu-crma-tungsten-west

    • Designation status observation
    • Field evidence: holders
    • Field evidence: programme
    • Field evidence: status
  7. Zandkopsdrift

    dsg-eu-crma-zandkopsdrift

    • Designation status observation
    • Field evidence: holders
    • Field evidence: programme
    • Field evidence: status

Organizations

6 distinct published records with an explicit reference to this source.

  1. EVION GROUP NL

    org-evion

    • Field evidence: country
    • Field evidence: kind
    • Field evidence: name
  2. Frontier Rare Earths Limited

    org-frontier-rare-earths

    • Field evidence: country
    • Field evidence: kind
    • Field evidence: name
  3. GreenRoc Strategic Materials Plc

    org-greenroc

    • Field evidence: country
    • Field evidence: kind
    • Field evidence: name
  4. Pobuzhzhya’s Development LLC

    org-pobuzhzhyas-development

    • Field evidence: country
    • Field evidence: kind
    • Field evidence: name
  5. Sarytogan Graphite Limited

    org-sarytogan

    • Field evidence: country
    • Field evidence: kind
    • Field evidence: name
  6. Tungsten West

    org-tungsten-west

    • Field evidence: country
    • Field evidence: name

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