There is currently only one operational lithium mine in the U.S. in Silver Peak, Nevada, which is owned by Albemarle.

The Charlotte company has been addressing the smell stirred up by its removing water from a dormant lithium pit mine.

Albemarle mines lithium at the Silver Peak mine in Nevada, and in Australia and Chile. Its customers include Tesla TSLA and Ford. While lithium is mined mostly in Australia and Chile, China ...

Work completed by Century Lithium led to the discovery of a world-class resource of lithium-bearing claystone, adjacent to the Albemarle Silver Peak mine, North America's only lithium brine operation.