A rendering of a processing facility planned at Ioneer Ltd's lithium mine, scheduled to begin construction next year, is displayed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management during a news conference in Reno, Nev., Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024, announcing the bureau's approval of a permit for the project. Environmentalists are threatening to sue to try to block the mine they say will drive an endangered wildflower to extinction. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)

FILE - In this photo provided by the Center for Biological Diversity, Tiehm's buckwheat grows in the high desert in the Silver Peak Range of western Nevada about halfway between Reno and Las Vegas, June 1, 2019, where a lithium mine is planned. (Patrick Donnelly/Center for Biological Diversity via AP, File)

FILE - Jon Raby, left, Nevada state director for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, speaks to reporters at BLM state headquarters in Reno, Nev., Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024, during a news conference announcing approval of a federal permit for Ioneer Ltd.'s lithium-boron mine now scheduled to begin construction next year near the California line about halfway between Reno and Las Vegas. Others who participated include, from left, Acting Deputy U.S. Interior Secretary Laura Daniel-Davis, Esmeralda County Commissioner Ralph Keys, Ioneer CEO Bernard Rowe and Steve Feldgus, principal deputy assistant U.S. interior secretary for land and minerals management. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner, File)