The Thacker Pass project consists of an open pit mine and lithium processing operations in an area north of Winnemucca, Nevada in Humboldt County. Lithium Americas has a joint-venture ownership ...

delivered two separate preliminary economic assessments for its Granite Creek project in Nevada this week: one for the fully permitted underground mine, and another for the potential open pit mine ...

Lithium, used in electric vehicle batteries, abounds in Nevada’s abundant federal ... a method distinct from traditional open-pit mine operations, may affect the environment.