Conservation group appeals to 9th Circuit in Rhyolite Ridge lithium mine fight

By: Jeniffer Solis

Outlets: Nevada Current

Published: April 8, 2026

Words: 621

Last Updated: 5 days, 13 hours ago

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Attorneys for conservation and Indigenous rights groups filed an appeal Wednesday in the effort to stop an open-pit lithium-boron mine from being built on the only known habitat of an endangered wildflower.

Last week, a federal judge ruled that the Interior Department properly approved Ioneer’s Rhyolite Ridge Lithium-Boron mine in Esmeralda County and sufficiently examined the impacts the project will have on Tiehm’s buckwheat, a rare wildflower whose entire population grows on just 10 …

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