Shutterstock The Most Violent Mining Towns in the Old West The Silver State’s ghost towns weren’t all peaceful mining camps that simply dried up when the ore ran out. In fact, some of the West’s most ...

A thousand feet beneath the desert, the United States conducts experiments to verify that its weapons work. But some fear a live test could come soon.

The Ioneer project received federal approval last year after a long battle over an endangered wildflower that only grows in ...

Once finalized, the loan cannot be reversed by incoming President Donald Trump, who vowed to claw back unspent Inflation ...

With a federal push for years to mine more lithium for electric batteries — one of many efforts to reverse human-caused ...

Ioneer has secured a $996m loan from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) under the Advanced ...

The US Department of Energy has finalized a $996-million loan for ioneer's Rhyolite Ridge lithium project, according to ...

Ioneer Limited is receiving a $996 million loan from the DOE through its Loan Programs Office under the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing program to support on-site processing of ...

The loan will fund construction of a state-of-the-art on-site processing facility for the Rhyolite Ridge Lithium-Boron Project, which is aiming to begin production in 2028.

The permitting reform bill had also included provisions from the Mining Regulatory Clarity Act — a bill pushed by Nevada’s lone congressional Republican. That legislation was explicitly crafted to ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A miner is transported on a stretcher by rescue workers after he was rescued from below ground in an ...