Surveying Tiehm’s buckwheat plants in Esmerelda County, Nevada. (Photo by Sarah Kulpa/USFWS) Federal land managers gave their final approval Thursday for a massive lithium-boron mine in Southern ...

The loan includes a 20-year term with interest rates far more favorable than those likely to be obtained in private financial markets. (Screengrab from DOE Loans Programs office) In an effort to ...

RENO, Nev. — For the first time under President Joe Biden, a federal permit for a new lithium mine has been approved for a Nevada project essential to his clean energy agenda, despite conservationists ...

An Australian mining company’s lithium-boron mine in Nevada passed all environmental hurdles on Thursday, and an environmental group immediately notified the federal government that it plans to sue.

Rhyolite Ridge’s biggest investor has pulled out of the project saying it did not meet their pricing assumptions. South African precious metals mining company Sibanye-Stillwater has pulled out of the ...

The Rhyolite Ridge mine could produce minerals to help power more than 50 million electric vehicles over its 26-year life, according to Ioneer. The Biden administration on Thursday telegraphed its ...

The US is trying to balance environmentalist protests and EV industry requirements as climate change effects deepen. In a first, the Biden Administration approved the Rhyolite Ridge Lithium-Boron ...

(This story has been updated to add new information and photos.) The U.S. Interior Department on Thursday gave final approval to Ioneer's Rhyolite Ridge lithium mine in Nevada, the first domestic ...

RENO, Nev.— The U.S. Bureau of Land Management gave final approval today to the Rhyolite Ridge Lithium-Boron Mine, despite severe threats the project poses to biodiversity, cultural landscapes and ...

Massive changes are on the horizon for Nevada’s least populated county, and the endangered wildflower that grows within its boundaries, after federal land managers released an industry-friendly ...