Australian nickel-gold miner IGO could buy up to a 25% stake, worth close to $1.5 billion, in the world’s biggest hard-rock lithium mine.

Three different organizations in Peru have set up blockades along the corridor used by Las Bambas to transport its product and receive supplies.

Over the past 35 years, there has been a 670% increase in the extent of pits in heavily mined watersheds.

The miner has lost billions of dollars with the operation, located next to the Goro deposit.

The Nevada project is host to the largest known lithium resource in the US.