![]() ![]() If approved as proposed, the project would also remove about 38% of designated critical habitat for the species, and create a permanent quarry and pit lake within the wildflowers' federally designated critical habitat, according to the U.S. The latest strategy by Ioneer to quell concerns by federal wildlife managers includes buffer zones, a conservation center, and fencing off known populations of the wildflower.įencing around the wildflower would be installed anywhere from 13 to 127 feet across from the endangered plant populations under the newest mining plans submitted by the mining company. In response, Ioneer developed a new mining plan they say would avoid direct impacts to all the subpopulations of Tiehm’s buckwheat. ![]() Those plans hit a snag when the wildflower was given over 900 acres of protected habitat overlapping the mine’s proposed site in Esmeralda County. has maintained the company’s planned lithium mine and the rare wildflower unique to Nevada can coexist. It’s also the location of the only known population of the Tiehm’s buckwheat plant, a rare wildflower listed as endangered by the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service in December.ĭespite the listing, Australia-based mine developer Ioneer Corp. Rhyolite Ridge in Nevada is one of the only two major known global deposits of lithium-boron. ![]()
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