Lithium Mining

The U.S. Department of Energy will provide $375 million in loans to a battery recycling company to build its first, and one of the first, lithium ion battery recycling plants in North America.

Conservationists are seeking an emergency court order to block the construction of a lithium mine near the Nevada-Oregon line.

A federal judge in Nevada has ordered the government to revisit part of its environmental review of a proposed lithium mine.

The Navajo Transitional Energy Company has partnered with an Australian-owned mining company to develop a proposed open-pit lithium mining operation in western Arizona.