An Australian mining company’s lithium-boron mine in Nevada passed all environmental hurdles on Thursday, and an environmental group immediately notified the federal government that it plans to sue.

The open-pit lithium mine would encompass the entire habitat of the rare Nevada wildflower. In recent weeks the mining company released a feasibility study and submitted an operations plan to state ...

Lithium extraction may be a done deal for the Thacker Pass region of Northern Nevada, but not without persistent controversy among some Native Americans and environmentalists. In a new, 133-page ...

Nevada is home to more than 300,000 abandoned mines — mines that can kill you in an almost unimaginable number of ways. But those mines from Nevada’s olden days are attracting a modern-day ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) claimed Thursday that the US government's decision to permit Lithium Americas to mine at Thacker Pass in Nevada violated Indigenous people's rights by failing to obtain ...

RENO, Nev.— Nevada Gold Mines has temporarily suspended plans to expand the Long Canyon Mine in northeast Nevada and says it will conduct hydrologic studies to address concerns that the expansion ...