Lithium-boron mine project in Nevada delayed due to price crash, environmental concerns, and investor pull-out.

Nevada is emerging as a major battleground to determine the fate of a century-and-a-half-old mining law as demand for valuable minerals in the U.S soars. Mining developers looking to extract ...

The Trump administration’s proposed budget bill would cut funding to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) by nearly 40%, including grants to universities. That could affect funding relied on by survey ...

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(The Center Square) - Amidst widespread speculation and local pushback, northern Nevada has taken another step toward realizing its lithium potential with an estimated $87 billion Elko County mine.

This photo shows a Tiehm's buckwheat plant near the site of a proposed lithium mine in Nevada on May 22, 2020. The Biden administration has taken a significant step in its expedited environmental ...

Few Americans follow the nation’s lithium-mining industry as closely as Patrick Donnelly. Since 2021, he has set up 30 or so Google Alerts for variations on the word “lithium,” and he uses ...

In Nevada's Great Basin, one company controls the groundwater needed to mine the lithium, another is fighting for a share of it, and others are lining up at the tap.

In a recent case involving a Nevada lithium mine 350 miles north of Rhyolite Ridge, a judge ruled that construction could start on Thacker's Pass mine, ...