A federal court ruled mining claims don’t guarantee access to adjacent federal land that lacks valuable minerals.

(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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. RENO, Nev. (AP) — A U.S. judge has ordered ...

RENO — The museum inside the University of Nevada, Reno’s Mackay School of Mines is a living scrapbook of the mining industry that gave the Silver State its name. Three floors and rows of glass cases ...

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