As a young man, I recall watching the western series “Death Valley Days” with my grandmother. It turned out to be one of the longest-lived Western hits on television, running from 1952 to 1970, and ...

RHYOLITE RIDGE, Nevada (KLAS) — Bernard Rowe came to Nevada to find gold. When he found lithium instead, he went to work on a project that’s consumed nearly a decade of his life in the hills outside ...

ESMERALDA COUNTY — Navigating the winding dirt path that may soon be paved for autonomous cars at Rhyolite Ridge is an easy feat for Bernard Rowe. He knows the prehistoric landscape well — and ...

From the left in the above photo is “Gasoline” Billy Kleer, 84; the Rev. Herschel Heisler, 80; Frederica Heisler, in her 70s; Bessie Moffat, 88; Louise Morrison, 77, Mary Thompson, 70, the town ...

Editor’s Note: Nevada 150 is a yearlong series highlighting the people, places and things that make up the history of the state. The John S. Cook Bank never closes here. The saloons have vanished, and ...

One of the most fascinating is Rhyolite in the Bullfrog Hills, about 190km northwest of Las Vegas, near the eastern edge of Death Valley. This boomtown sprung to life after a couple of prospectors ...

Surveying Tiehm’s buckwheat plants in Esmerelda County, Nevada. (Photo by Sarah Kulpa/USFWS) Federal land managers gave their final approval Thursday for a massive lithium-boron mine in Southern ...

RENO, Nev., January 17, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ioneer Ltd (ASX: INR, Nasdaq: IONR) (Ioneer) announced the closing of a $996 million loan from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Loan Programs Office ...

Release of U.S. Federal Government’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement Positions Nevada Project to Commence Operations in 2027 The draft document will include Ioneer’s efforts to redesign and ...

After years of work to advance the Rhyolite Ridge lithium-boron mine in Esmeralda County, Ioneer late last year secured its federal permit from the Bureau of Land Management and subsequently closed on ...