Today the BLM announced the start of a 45-day public comment period on a draft EIS for a proposed lithium mine in Nevada’s Silver Peak Range.
As of this evening, no new documents have been copied to the project folder.
The 2022 scoping overview puts the mine in the Silver Peak HMA, which overlaps the Silver Peak Allotment.
The HMA allows six wild burros on 239,801 public acres.
The allotment offers 1,530 active AUMs on 281,489 public acres, equivalent to 255 wild burros, on 281,489 public acres.
The land is not very useful from an agricultural viewpoint.
Lithium is used in batteries for electric vehicles, utilities, computers and mobile phones.
The advocates complain about habitat loss attributable to mining even though they, as believers in man-made climate change, vote for it.
Western Horse Watchers Association 