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From left, Josh Dini, Gary McKinney and Rusty Brady ride along a fence line to Sentinel Rock overlooking Lithium Americas’ Thacker Pass Project. On March 14, the U.S. Department of Energy finalized plans to conditionally lend Lithium Americas up to $2.26 billion to build a lithium carbonate processing plant. The loan is the largest federal investment in a lithium mine to date. (David Calvert/The Nevada Independent)

