Lithium is emerging as a strategic resource, pushing Europe to develop domestic mining and reduce dependence on Chinese-controlled critical mineral supply chains. In recent years, the European Union ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is moving forward with a deal that would allow the U.S. government to take a small equity stake in a Canadian company that is developing one of the world’s largest ...

The U.S. government is taking a minority stake in Lithium Americas, a company that is developing one of the world's largest lithium mines in northern Nevada. The Department of Energy will take a 5% ...

The only lithium mine operating in the United States is in Nevada. But there are plans to open more to meet the demand for ...

Albemarle Corp.'s commitment to reopening a dormant lithium mine in Kings Mountain hit a key milestone, at the same time the company is cutting costs elsewhere. The Charlotte-based specialty chemical ...

An employee with EnergyX, an Austin-based lithium startup, works in the company's laboratory on Oct. 7. This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news ...

The U.S. government is taking a minority stake in Lithium Americas, a company that is developing one of the world’s largest lithium mines in northern Nevada. The Department of Energy will take a 5% ...

There’s a growing push to build an EV-battery industry in Europe and North America by recycling lithium-ion batteries.

An estimated 40,000 children work in cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the source of over half of the world’s supply. In Madagascar, an estimated 10,000 children mine for mica.

Home owners living beside the world's biggest hard-rock lithium mine in Western Australia's South West region are calling on the miner to buy out their homes or offer relocation. Many locals in the ...