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The Bolivian government is set this month to choose companies that would turn the lithium in reservoirs below its salt flats into economic resources exported to the world market. Launched during a global commodities boom that emboldened the country, Bolivia’s lithium industry has struggled. The state lithium corporation, Yacimientos de Litio Bolivianos, or YLB, has […]

The past decade has seen a paradigm shift in the way the world looks at lighting. Homes, offices and streets have turned off wasteful incandescent lights and fluorescent ones that exposed users and the environment to toxic contamination. In their place, climate scientists and governments have promoted light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs to tackle ballooning electricity […]

The Piedmont Lithium (PLL) CEO has issued a warning that domestic resources for lithium, the most critical mineral used in the production of electric vehicles (EV), will not suffice to meet the [...]

Lithium production suffered a major setback at a time when battery makers desperately need the metal, which is a key component in electric vehicle (EV) batteries. Earlier this year, Chinese EV [...]

During the legislative session in February, Governor Cox signed a resolution recognizing Utah as an important source of critical minerals in the United States and expressing the need to mine public lands. The first part of this two-part series explains what critical minerals are and focuses on one mineral found in Utah, beryllium.