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By Xinhua writers Tan Jingjing, Huang Heng

The company exploring an Oregon lithium deposit is encouraged by efforts to bolster the U.S. critical minerals supply chain, but a mining pitch is still years away.

Judge refuses to block digging at NV-OR mine A Nevada tribe said the digging would disturb sacred burial grounds Author: A Nevada tribe said the digging would disturb sacred burial grounds Scott Sonner Associated Press RENO, Nev. — A federal judge has denied environmentalists' request for a court order temporarily blocking the government from digging trenches for archaeological surveys at a mine planned near the Nevada-Oregon line with the biggest known U.S. deposit of lithium.  U.S. District Judge Miranda Du said in an 11-page ruling late Friday in Reno that four conservation groups faile...

Governors' Wind Energy Coalition California’s electric car revolution, designed to save the planet, also unleashes a toll on it Source: By Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times  • Posted: Wednesday, July 21, 2021 The precious cargo on the ship docked in San Diego Bay was strikingly small for a vessel built to drag oil rigs out to sea. Machines tethered to this hulking ship had plucked rocks the size of a child’s fist from the ocean floor thousands of miles into the Pacific. The mission was delicate and controversial — with broad implications for the planet. Investors ...

Leaders with the Hualapai Tribe claim that the lithium mine will "desecrate" their sacred cultural sites.