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Who’s defending Rhyolite Ridge Lithium Mine / Cave Spring?

1 group on the record for it

BLM land in Nevada, managed by the Bureau of Land Management.

The groups

Who’s in the fight for Rhyolite Ridge Lithium Mine / Cave Spring

Every group here is listed for a sourced fact, and each fact opens its source. Give directly; no gift routes through this site.

In the fight 1

A sourced tie to Rhyolite Ridge Lithium Mine / Cave Spring, from anywhere.

Your group works here? Add it. Send the page on your group’s own site that says it works on Rhyolite Ridge Lithium Mine / Cave Spring. A person on the desk reads it before anything lists.

The situation

What’s happening to Rhyolite Ridge Lithium Mine / Cave Spring

An open-pit lithium and boron mine in the Silver Peak Range of Esmeralda County, on public land tied to Cave Spring, a sacred site for the Western Shoshone and Timbisha Shoshone. In early 2026 a federal court upheld the BLM’s approval of Ioneer’s mine, clearing the way for construction. Tribes and conservation groups warn the mine will draw down groundwater that feeds the sacred spring, which reportedly went dry near monitoring wells, and imperil the endangered Tiehm’s buckwheat that grows nowhere else on Earth.

  1. 2026Federal court upholds BLM approval of the mineLas Vegas Review-Journal · March 25, 2026

No public comment window is open on Rhyolite Ridge Lithium Mine / Cave Spring right now. A call script is ready on the Public Lands Action Network, and the groups above are how the fight gets funded and argued in the meantime.

Your move

How to stand for Rhyolite Ridge Lithium Mine / Cave Spring

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A ready call script on Rhyolite Ridge Lithium Mine / Cave Spring, plus any comment window as it opens.

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Build my lineup around Rhyolite Ridge Lithium Mine / Cave Spring: a group in the fight here opens it, and the other seats are the matchmaker’s picks.

Rhyolite Ridge Lithium Mine / Cave Spring has defenders. It needs more.

1 more in the fight, Center for Biological Diversity with 242 staff + 19 volunteers. That is who is holding it. Find your way in.

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Sources and methodThe situation, timeline, and threats: the MTJP threatened-lands record for Rhyolite Ridge Lithium Mine / Cave Spring, with per-item sources. Group crews and program ratios: IRS Form 990 via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, latest filed year, EINs on each group’s profile. Which groups are listed for this place: a group is listed only under a sourced fact, and each chip opens its source. Local means headquartered in the state (the group’s own site, else the legal domicile on its 990) or the place named in its mission on its latest 990. In the fight means a case over the place naming it (the court docket), its own comment on a decision about the place (regulations.gov), an editors’ link with its source or its own page approved by a person here, or events on its own calendar held at the place. No fact, no listing. Org-reported figures are always labeled. Data verified as of 2026-10-04. No group pays to be listed on this page or for where it sits.