Interior Department Files Emergency Request After BLM Approves Ioneer’s Lithium Mine, Nevada
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The Biden administration says a U.S. judge exceeded his authority when he gave federal wildlife officials a May 21 deadline to decide whether to formally propose endangered species protections for a rare desert wildflower in Nevada.
The plant is at the center of a fight over a proposed billion-dollar lithium mine. The site for the mine is a place called Rhyolite Ridge, which lies north of the Silver Peak lithium mine and west of Tonopah.
Lawyers for the Interior Department filed an emergency request last week asking a federal judge to reconsider his order regarding the fate of the only Tiehm’s buckwheat plants known to exist in the world.
BLM approved ioneer’s plan of operations in September, 2020.
A government official told The Associated Press that U.S. land managers don’t anticipate a decision on the fate of the project until January 2022.
Last month, the judge said a listing decision set the May 21 deadline.
Source: Nexstar Media
About ioneer
ioneer Ltd is the 100 percent owner of the Rhyolite Ridge Lithium-Boron Project located in Nevada, the only known lithium-boron deposit in North America and one of only two known such deposits in the world. The definitive feasibility study (DFS) completed in April 2020 confirmed Rhyolite Ridge as a world-class Lithium and Boron Project that is expected to become a globally significant, long-life, low-cost source of lithium and boron vital to a sustainable future.
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