The Department of Interior has announced a two-year pause on new mining claims near Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.

If approved, any new attempts of exploration for lithium or any other minerals near the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, will be denied for 20 years.

LAS VEGAS, Nev.— Conservation groups filed a lawsuit against the Bureau of Land Management today challenging the agency’s approval of exploratory mineral drilling near the Ash Meadows National ...

The Ash Meadows gumplant thrives on salty soils — especially the moist, salt-encrusted, alkali soils of Ash Meadows in the Amargosa Valley. But road construction, off-road vehicle use, and livestock ...

For two local activists, the price is too great. Patrick Donnelly and Naomi Fraga in a salt flat on the edge of Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge. They have opposed a lithium-mining project ...

On Tuesday, the Department of the Interior announced its intent to pull nearly 270,000 acres of public land adjacent to Nevada’s Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge from consideration for ...

However, exploratory mining may be on its way out for one area of Southern Nevada: 308,890 acres of public land in the Amargosa Valley, including land near Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.

The species lives nowhere in the world but inside a secluded cave, the depth of which is unknown, in a section of Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge that’s considered a part of Death Valley ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) — The Department of Interior has announced a two-year pause on new mining claims near Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge. In addition to the pause, officials say they ...