Is Nevada home to the only operating lithium production mine in the US? Read more from The Nevada Independent.

SILVER PEAK, Nevada – Three women trek into the barren Nevada desert, boots crunching down a wash until one of them stops at an overhang, pulls out a geology pick, and chips away a chunk of rock. Over ...

In one of the driest state’s driest basins, two lithium companies are fighting over what underpins the mining industry in Nevada: water. The Nevada Supreme Court heard arguments on Wednesday in a case ...

Albemarle, the company that operates the country’s only operating lithium mine, is seeking federal approval for an extension of the Nevada site that could increase its size by about 25 percent. Known ...

SILVER PEAK, Nevada – Nyle Pennington, a veteran water scientist who tracks groundwater for local governments, stopped at a monitoring station just 1 mile from America’s only active commercial lithium ...

The United States is increasing its domestic lithium production to reduce reliance on foreign supply chains, potentially ...

The Silver Peak mine in Nevada is the only operating lithium project in the United States. Expansion of the nation’s only operating lithium mine would likely have only a modest impact on its remote ...

A slate of new mine proposals in lithium rich Nevada complicates the environmental response, with some saying large, destructive mines have no place in sensitive environments with others contending ...

ESMERALDA COUNTY, NV - A 2.0 magnitude quake was recorded close to Silver Peak on Sunday around midday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The tremor struck the area at 1:51 p.m. It occurred at a ...