New research led by UMass Amherst hydrologists sounds the alarm over mining practices that use unsustainable amounts fresh water.

The global lithium mining industry has seen a remarkable surge in growth, driven primarily by the unprecedented demand for ...

In the main square of Peine, a village of low houses and dirt streets in Chile’s northern Atacama Desert, there is barely any ...

(Reuters) - Rio Tinto has held talks with the Democratic Republic of Congo about developing one of the world's biggest hard ...

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline The weirdest ways scientists are mining for critical minerals, ...

IBAT CEO Iris Jancik, who stepped into the role in August, shared her insight on market conditions, lessons learned and China ...

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 ...

Summit Nanotech said on Tuesday it had secured $25.5 million in funding from a consortium of investment funds, bolstering its work on direct lithium extraction (DLE) technologies.

(AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) This story was originally published by Grist. A Canadian mining company behind a massive new lithium mine in northern Nevada has received a $250 million investment to ...

Evaporation ponds for extracting lithium at the Albemarle Silver Peak ... the permitting process enough to enable large-scale mining projects. Trump has little patience for environmentalists ...