In eastern Nevada, Rhyolite Ridge is the site of a battle that could have far-reaching consequences for the United States’ ...

The U.S. has some of the toughest environmental laws in the world and has been content to let other countries mine, and buy ...

On October 24, the US Bureau of Land Management gave ultimate approval for Ioneer Ltd, an Australia-based lithium-boron producer, to go ahead with the construction of the Rhyolite Ridge Lithium-Boron ...

But Nevada's lithium source rocks, namely, rhyolite (the erupted form of granite), contain only trace amounts of lithium — not enough to economically mine directly. Here geologists are instead ...

The “White Hill” at Rhyolite Ridge in Esmeralda County, Nevada. (Photo courtesy Ioneer) The federal government is now facing ...

The project in Nevada is key to Biden's clean energy agenda, but the mining plan appears destined for a legal battle with ...

Alpine beaches, tasty Basque cooking, and eerie ghost towns dispel any notions that the Silver State is only sagebrush and slot machines.

Rosen praised the Energy Department for providing a conditional loan of $700 million for Rhyolite Ridge, saying it would help create well-paying jobs in her state. “Nevada’s mining sector is ...

Environmental and Indigenous groups on Thursday filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Interior Department's approval of ioneer ...

“Ioneer has spent years diligently working with Esmeralda County, Nevada and federal regulatory authorities, the Fish Lake Valley community and tribal nations to sustainably develop our Rhyolite ...

(Reuters) -The U.S. Interior Department on Thursday gave final approval to ioneer's Rhyolite Ridge lithium mine in Nevada, the first domestic source of the battery metal to be permitted by President ...