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Nevada is emerging as a major battleground to determine the fate of a century-and-a-half-old mining law as demand for valuable minerals in the U.S soares.

A court ruling that mining companies cannot dump waste rock on public land where no economically valuable minerals are present could send projects back to square one.

The US government has removed one of the last remaining obstacles to Lithium Americas’ Thacker Pass mine project in Nevada.

The Biden administration says Nevada's massive lithium mine project can continue construction after the administration completed a court-ordered ...

Center for Biological Diversity: WASHINGTON— Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez-Masto introduced legislation today that would allow the mining industry to turn public lands into toxic mining-waste dumps.

Buffalo’s Fire Judge affirms stricter interpretation of mining law

Another judge has adopted a U.S. appellate courts stricter interpretation of a mining law in a new ruling that blocks a metals mine in Nevada.

The ruling could have ramifications for a huge lithium mine near the Nevada-Oregon line and other future mines on public lands across the West.

The new ruling blocks a metals mine in Nevada.

A judge ruled to halt a mine in Nevada, adopting a stricter interpretation of laws first implemented last year, the Associated Press (AP) reported Wednesday.