Almost two centuries after California's gold rush, the United States is on the brink of a lithium rush. As demand for the ...

"We need to develop a circular economy where we reuse these minerals wherever possible, otherwise we will run out of ...

Arkansas' lithium boom is ramping up—a billion-dollar project to extract and produce commercial lithium in the southwest part ...

Elements in the soil of the Silver Peak range nurture a buckwheat that grows nowhere else in the world, but could also ...

A final environmental impact statement on the Rhyolite Ridge lithium mine is expected Friday from the U.S. Bureau of Land ...

Chinese-owned mines are extracting lithium from Zimbabwe, which has the world’s 9th biggest deposits. This displaces rural ...

The mining giant Rio Tinto is moving ahead with a novel form of lithium extraction in Serbia’s Jadar Valley. Powerful ...

When Hualapai Spiritual Leader Frank Mapatis visits Ha’Kamwe’, the tribe's sacred spring, to conduct any type of ceremony, ...

There are two major problems with the Thacker Pass Lithium Project: the environmental costs of current lithium mining practices and the profound desecration of a sacred Native American site ...

A potential breakthrough in direct extraction of the battery metal in the US could disrupt the current ecosystem centered on ...

During a daylong hearing in U.S. District Court on Tuesday, Justice Department lawyers defended the Bureau of Land Management ...

Zimbabwe is the largest producer of lithium in Africa, and the ninth largest in the world. The Zimbabwean government promotes mining to stimulate socio-economic development. But new lithium mining ...