The area surrounding the Lithium Americas Thacker Pass mine is a close-knit community where the place to be on a Friday night is the Lowry High School basketball game. Now, Humboldt County and the city of Winnemucca are preparing for a population increase of about 25 percent as workers come to the area to support the mine’s construction. This rural area’s public officials are cobbling together grants to support the infrastructure necessary for newcomers – and dealing with the changes to this rem

🚧⬆️ Thacker Pass is going vertical. Bechtel ironworkers recently set the first structural steel column for the Lithium Americas processing facility in Nevada—marking the start of above-ground construction of the processing plant. The 7,000-pound column is the first of more than 18,000 tons of steel that will form the backbone of the facility. 🏃‍♀️‍➡️ Catch up quick: Bechtel is managing the construction of the 642-acre plant complex with 600,000 square feet of processing plant buildings, admini