The collaboration supports Charlotte-based Albemarle’s efforts to establish Kings Mountain as the first-ever zero-emissions lithium mine site in North America. Caterpillar, based in Irving ...

Albemarle has about 300 employees working in Kings Mountain now and expects to grow to 440 permanent, full-time positions once the mine is operational, Albemarle spokesman Ryan Dean said.

A North Carolina lawmaker is asking for federal help to keep an eye on air quality near a planned lithium mine in the Kings Mountain area outside of Charlotte. Congressman Tim Moore wrote a letter ...

CHARLOTTE – The Department of Defense has committed $90 million to revive the Kings Mountain mine that closed in 1988, but could contain five million tons of lithium, bolstering the military’s ...

KINGS MOUNTAIN, N.C. — A smell has been lingering around Kings Mountain for weeks now. According to our partners at The Charlotte Observer, a dormant lithium mine is to blame.

Ellen Lenny-Pessagno, Global Vice President for External Affairs and Sustainability for Albemarle, talks about a graphic showing how lithium is used at Albemarle’s Kings Mountain lithium mine ...

Albemarle’s Kings Mountain lithium mine site in Kings Mountain, N.C., on Tuesday, December 5, 2023. Khadejeh Nikouyeh Knikouyeh@charlotteobserver.com ...

Albemarle Corp. expects to obtain permits and begin draining water in the next few months from the 168-foot deep lake at the former mine off I-85 in Kings Mountain.

Albemarle has about 300 employees working in Kings Mountain now and expects to grow to 440 permanent, full-time positions once the mine is operational, Albemarle spokesman Ryan Dean said.

The Kings Mountain was already mined for lithium Albemarle acquired the former Rockwood Holdings mine in 2015. The Cleveland County lithium mine operated from 1938 to 1988.