Why America needs to streamline its mine development timeline

It takes an average of nearly 29 years to build a new mine in the U.S., the second-longest in the world behind only Zambia, hampering Washington’s efforts to boost output of lithium, nickel, and other metals for the energy transition, a report said on Thursday.

It takes an average of nearly 29 years to build a new mine in the U.S., the second-longest in the world behind only Zambia, hampering Washington’s efforts to boost output of lithium, nickel and other metals for the energy transition, a report said on Thursday.