The Great Basin, covering parts of seven states, could provide 10 percent of the U.S.'s energy needs via geothermal sources.

The US discovers a deposit of 19 million tons of lithium in Arkansas, key for batteries and electric vehicles.

In a discovery that could fundamentally reshape humanity's energy future, scientists have identified an immense, virtually ...

The Smackover is already commonly used by energy and ... for increased U.S. production to replace imports” with the new ...

The USGS reported a lithium discovery the size of nine times ... A few months later, the U.S. Department of Energy discovered a massive lithium deposit beneath California's Salton Sea, holding ...

The Department of Energy announced in November 2023 that ... lithium mining in California comes as a recent analysis by the U.S. Geological Survey found that the Smackover Formation in Arkansas ...

“USGS energy assessments typically focus on undiscovered resources – areas where science tells us there may be a resource that industry hasn’t discovered yet. In this case, after a century ...

This story is part of the Grist series Unearthed: The Mining Issue, which examines the global race to extract critical minerals for the clean energy ... Developed by the U.S. Geological Survey ...