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Biden Administration approves its first lithium mining project

(Oil Price) – The Biden Administration has granted a final federal permit to a lithium-boron project in Nevada in the first such project approved by the Administration as part of its efforts to support America-produced lithium and reduce dependence on Chinese supply, the project developer said on Friday. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has issued the federal permit for the Rhyolite Ridge