Russia wants to command 10% of the global lithium market by mining untapped reserves — but its flagship project Polar Lithium ...

U.S. government violated international human rights law when it provided a mining permit to Lithium Americas for the Thacker ...

Hundreds of federal workers process thousands of retirement applications every month, by hand in a converted former mine.

Global mining major Rio Tinto has secured all necessary regulatory approvals to proceed with its $6.7-billion acquisition of ...

Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso no longer orient themselves towards France or Western business interests. As demand for raw materials grows, this pivot may have significant consequences for Europe’ s ...

Chinese electric carmaker BYD acquired mineral rights for two plots of land in a lithium-rich part of Brazil in 2023, ...

The world’s largest EV maker does not look to be slowing down anytime soon. Newly discovered documents show that ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) claimed Thursday that the US government's decision to permit Lithium Americas to mine at Thacker Pass in Nevada violated Indigenous people's rights by failing to obtain ...

A trove of lithium-rich brine exists underground in Bolivia. Researchers conducted the first comprehensive chemical analysis of wastewater associated with mining the resource.

CATL's mine in the southern Chinese province of Jiangxi has been a major contributor to rapidly growing supplies of lithium ...

Lithium heavyweight Albemarle will mothball one of its processing plants in China as it continues cost-cutting measures that ...

At an open-cast mine, Abdullahi Ibrahim Danjija carefully chisels away at a hunk of whitish rock before stuffing a sack with ...