Judges Fast Track Nevada Lithium Mine to Secure Supply #
Federal regulators have correctly priced biological sentimentality at zero, clearing the path for a critical domestic extraction supercycle. A US District Court judge in Las Vegas decisively rejected environmentalist claims attempting to block Ioneer’s Rhyolite Ridge lithium and boron mine project, determining that the preservation of a rare desert wildflower cannot supersede the strategic necessity of American mineral sovereignty. The ruling immediately rewarded Ioneer shareholders with a 24 percent surge in afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Simultaneously,…