But since lithium is considered a metal, the deposit owners are regulated under the state's tough mining laws. But after ...

We don’t know how the the life of this bear was, but its end came in the darkness, at the bottom of a pit in a narrow ...

Washington state needs lithium to meet the demand for electric vehicles and renewable energy. But mines add to a legacy of ...

A generic 40-kilowatt-hour electric vehicle battery, about the size in a Nissan Leaf, requires over 8 pounds of lithium, over ...

Lithium Americas is developing the mine in an area known as Thacker Pass where it plans to unearth lithium carbonate that can be used to make batteries for electric vehicles. The area, known as Peehee ...

Spain is aiming to tap its unexplored strategic mining resources as the EU urgently seeks to ramp up production, but local ...

The agency will no longer shut down “any stage of energy production,” absent an imminent threat, a new memo says, and will curtail efforts to cut pollution in poorer areas.

Stephen Mensah, a 90-year-old elder of Ewoyaa, a tiny community in Ghana’s Central Region, would soon lose the place he has ...

Crypto proponents and researchers have noted that mining can encourage the development of renewable sources such as solar ...

All these developments, as well as the advanced production of high-tech products, are impossible without the use of precious and rare earth metals and ...

Uzbekistan’s future in the critical minerals market will not be defined by its abundance of resources, but by the policies it enacts to ensure an economic boom does not come at the cost of ...

A new study suggests battery recyclers could reduce environmental impacts and costs by replacing harsh chemicals with a neutral solvent to recover minerals.