WA’s need for EVs comes at a cost for mining towns
Washington state needs lithium to meet the demand for electric vehicles and renewable energy. But mines add to a legacy of ...
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A $250M Investment Will Help This Lithium Mine Get Up and Running. That’s Bad News for These Tribes.
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 ...
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Ukraine Rare Earths Deal Is Nonsense To Mining Experts
According to IEEE Spectrum, Ukraine doesn’t have any mineable rare earths. The publication quotes Erik Jonsson, senior ...
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As Copper Mountain seeks 500-acre expansion, residents want solutions to ‘ridiculous’ traffic jams that spill onto I-70 during peak visitation
While a trail of red brake lights may be frustrating to those trying to plunge deep into pockets of powder, the traffic jams ...
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What you need to know about rare earth minerals: “You can find them wherever you decide to look for them”
⛰⛏ Here’s a rare find. Mountain Pass Mine in California, shown here, is the largest rare-earth element (REE) mine in the U.S. In the '40s, prospectors in the region unexpectedly struck the ...
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How China beat out the US to become the top player in rare-earths refining
Most of the bounty comes from a massive deposit in the Mountain Pass mine in California. But the U.S. exports about two-thirds of its rare earths to China. It has little choice: China is ...
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Trump pushes for global mineral deals to boost US security—but still faces a China bottleneck
US President Donald Trump is ramping up efforts to secure access to the minerals the US needs for smartphones, electric vehicles, and advanced military equipment, focusing on resource-rich regions ...
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Top 10 Countries by Rare Earth Metal Production
Rare earths supply in the US currently comes only from the Mountain Pass mine in California, which is owned by MP Materials (NYSE:MP). Mountain Pass is producing high-purity neodymium and ...
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Copper Creek mine foes say project would disrupt San Pedro River conservation
Redhawk Copper wants to mine extra copper from an area near the San Pedro River ... High above the San Pedro River Valley, ...