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The new ruling blocks a metals mine in Nevada.

Another judge has adopted a U.S. appellate court's stricter interpretation of a century-and-a-half-old 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.U.S. District Judge Larry Hicks in Reno vacated the U.S. Bureau of

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Environmental advocates and the mining industry on Monday sparred over the bill that seeks to ban pit lakes formed by Nevada mines out of concern about possible contamination of surrounding groundwater.

Despite the combined opposition of Indigenous tribes, environmentalists and a rancher, ground broke this week on the Thacker Pass mine.

The controversial mine, located on the site of an 1865 massacre of Paiute people, is opposed by tribes and environmental groups.

U.S. largest lithium mining project draws strong protests from environmental groups-

Pushing aside legal roadblocks, workers have begun construction work on what is being called America's largest lithium mine, a project backed by the Biden administration but opposed by leftist environmentalist groups and some Native Americans.

International, MNA | The construction of the planned Thacker Pass lithium mine in the remote north of U.S. state of Nevada, the largest known lithium deposit in the United States, has drawn concerns and protests from environmental groups as well as Native American tribes.

LOS ANGELES, March 3 (Xinhua) -- The construction of the planned Thacker Pass lithium mine in the remote north of U.S. state of Nevada, the largest known lithium deposit in the United States, has drawn concerns and protests from environmental groups as well as Native American tribes.