The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) issued a Final Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Kings Mountain Lithium Mine Project; City of Kings Mountain, NC (DOE/EA-2265).
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March 30, 2026
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Kings Mountain Lithium Mine Project; Cleveland County, NC
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) issued a Final Environmental Assessment (EA) for Kings Mountain Lithium Mine Project (DOE/EA-2265), which assesses the potential environmental and social impacts of DOE NETL's proposed action to provide funding to Albemarle U.S., Inc.'s (Albemarle's) proposed project - to construct a new, commercial-scale, U.S.-based lithium materials/spodumene mineral processing plant that uses sustainably extracted spodumene minerals from the reopened and expanded mine at Kings Mountain in North Carolina.
For more information, see Kings Mountain Lithium Mine Project.