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

In the American West, beneath a long-dormant supervolcano, geologists have uncovered a lithium deposit that could transform ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...