In north-west New South Wales, the opal mining town of Lighting Ridge sits atop a Cretaceous coastal flood plain. The dry, eucalypt and acacia-covered landscape around here is just its latest ...

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.

This large Australian light opal cabochon weighs 117.85 carats. Small play-of-color flashes of orange and green predominate in a pinfire pattern, with spots of a more muted blue over a grayish ...

A rendering of a processing facility planned at Ioneer Ltd's lithium mine, scheduled to begin construction next year, is displayed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management during a news conference in ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE - In this photo provided by the Center for Biological Diversity, Tiehm’s buckwheat grows in the high ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE - Tiehm’s buckwheat grows in a greenhouse in Gardnerville, Nevada, Tuesday, May 21, 2024. The ...

(CN) —Environmental advocacy groups sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management on Thursday, claiming that the bureau's approval of a lithium mine in Nevada will drive the endangered Tiehm’s buckwheat ...

(CN) — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management on Thursday gave final approval to the Rhyolite Ridge lithium mining project in Nevada as the Biden administration seeks to strengthen domestic supplies of ...

The developer of a lithium mine in Nevada’s Humboldt County has received a $2.26 billion loan from the U.S. Department of Energy to help finance the mine’s construction. Through the Biden ...