Members of the Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribe protest outside the offices of the federal Bureau of Land Management in Winnemucca, Nev., on March 18, 2021, before beginning a prayer run to Thacker Pass, the site where a new lithium mine would operate. A race is on to produce lithium in the United States, but competing projects are taking very different approaches to extracting the vital raw material.
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