Drilling expected to start soon at new Nevada lithium mine

Nevada’s lithium boom continued to ramp up this week, with one Nye County mine declaring that exploratory drilling would ...
WVXU

On Nevada’s frontier, a historic mining town is ready for another boom

A century ago, miners in Tonopah risked their lives to pull a fortune of silver and gold from the nearby mountains. Though the mines went quiet years ago, the town of a little more than 2,000 people ...
Oklahoma's News

NASA opposes lithium mining at tabletop flat Nevada desert site used to calibrate satellites

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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) — Environmentalists, tribal ...
E&E

Biden proposes shielding lithium-rich Nevada land from mining

The Interior Department is proposing protecting about 309,000 acres of federal land. The Biden administration in its eleventh hour is pushing to protect hundreds of thousands of acres in southern ...
Las Vegas Sun

A climate-saving lithium mine could doom an endangered desert flower

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 ...
E&E

Upside down in Nevada: GOP voters embrace climate programs, while Democrats oppose solar

Conservative mining towns are benefiting under the IRA while Democratic voters skewer the Biden-Harris administration for opening the desert to solar farms. TONOPAH, Nevada — President Joe Biden’s ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal

‘You can’t drink money’: Mine drilling near Death Valley stokes groundwater fears

DEATH VALLEY JUNCTION, Calif. — Little-understood groundwater flows and mining in this desert region don’t mix — a complexity some feel is lost on a federal administration focused on “energy dominance ...