Over the past few decades, the United States has imported most of its lithium from Chile and Argentina, but there’s one major domestic source of the mineral—Nevada. Clayton Valley, a remote basin in ...

In one of the driest state’s driest basins, two lithium companies are fighting over what underpins the mining industry in Nevada: water. The Nevada Supreme Court heard arguments on Wednesday in a case ...

SILVER PEAK, Nevada – Nyle Pennington, a veteran water scientist who tracks groundwater for local governments, stopped at a monitoring station just 1 mile from America’s only active commercial lithium ...

The rare and endangered Tiehm's buckwheat grows in southern Nevada's Silver Peak Range. (Patrick Donnelly/Center for Biological Diversity) (CN) — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management on Thursday gave ...

The Silver Peak mine in Nevada is the only operating lithium project in the United States. Expansion of the nation’s only operating lithium mine would likely have only a modest impact on its remote ...

Albemarle, the company that operates the country’s only operating lithium mine, is seeking federal approval for an extension of the Nevada site that could increase its size by about 25 percent. Known ...