(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 ...

While the price of battery-grade lithium in North America peaked in early 2023 at about $70,000 per ton, it has sharply dropped, hovering this year around $10,000 per ton, according to data provided ...

A Nevada lithium project central to US efforts to secure domestic mineral supply is leaning on a half-century-old satellite program for modern answers. The US Geological Survey’s (USGS) Landsat ...

This story was originally published by Grist. A Canadian mining company behind a massive new lithium mine in northern Nevada has received a $250 million investment to complete construction of the new ...

Learning the protocol for “unanticipated discoveries” is a mandatory part of visitor training for the site where Lithium Americas, a mining company originally from Canada, plans to tear up the desert ...

The U.S. government is taking a minority stake in Lithium Americas, a company that is developing one of the world’s largest lithium mines in northern Nevada. The Department of Energy will take a 5% ...

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 ...

The developer of what could be the world’s largest lithium mine and a private landowner have reached a settlement following a flurry of lawsuits and appeals over water rights the company says are ...