(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.

A proposed lithium-boron mine in Nevada has been delayed for a second time amid a lithium price crash caused by softer electric vehicle demand and an oversupply of the battery metal globally. Earlier ...

The Biden administration is encouraging US lithium mining through a mix of loans, grants, and tax breaks.

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RHYOLITE RIDGE, Nevada (KLAS) — Bernard Rowe came to Nevada to find gold. When he found lithium instead, he went to work on a project that’s consumed nearly a decade of his life in the hills outside ...

Nevada’s state engineer sent a cease-and-desist letter to the company behind the Thacker Pass lithium mine last Friday, demanding it cease groundwater pumping at the request of a local rancher. That ...

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Lithium Americas, the Canadian company that is developing the project, signed an agreement with the Fort McDermitt tribe — the closest to the mine among more than two dozen federally recognized tribes ...

The U.S. doesn’t produce the minerals and metals needed for renewable energy, microchips or military technology. Authorities ...

Two scenes. Two storytellers. Two visions for a climate-altered American West. On an overcast spring morning, I hopped a low metal fence off a lonely dirt road in the Nevada desert, following botanist ...

FILE - Construction continues at the Lithium Nevada Corp. mine site Thacker Pass project, April 24, 2023, near Orovada, Nev. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) FILE - Construction continues at the Lithium ...