Despite promises of bringing cash and clean energy to a long-struggling region in the California desert, a new lithium mining project is already under scrutiny for allegedly ignoring the severe ...

Raquel Celina Rodriguez watches her step as she walks across the Vega de Tilopozo in Chile's Atacama salt flats. It's a wetland, known for its groundwater springs, but the plain is now dry and cracked ...

U.S.-based Albemarle Corp, the world's largest lithium producer, has accused its top rival, Chilean miner SQM, and local regulators of seeking to keep secret a coveted report about the environmental ...

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BEATTY — Ed Ringle has big ideas for the small enclave of Beatty. He also has the land and water to see those ideas to fruition — a rarity in the driest state in the nation with the least percentage ...

A Nevada mining company will lose out on a $57 million federal grant to build a manufacturing plant for battery-grade lithium ...

The U.S. will take a 5% stake in lithium miner Lithium Americas, plus 5% in the key Thatcher Pass mining project in Nevada.

Australia's Pilbara Minerals beat analysts' estimates on Friday, supported by cost reductions, and extended studies for a new chemicals plant as government support for critical minerals projects grows ...

Carbon emissions from the lithium-ion battery supply chain could be cut by up to around 35% using a circular economy strategy ...

Lithium Americas stock surged on Wednesday following a report that the Trump administration is pursuing a 10% stake in the mining firm as the White House looks to intervene in industries deemed ...

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% ...