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A Senate committee has killed a bill that would tax one of the world’s most in-demand minerals—lithium.
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House lawmakers are passing a bill that adds a severance tax on the mineral lithium. About 50,000 acres of public land in the Black Hills are under a lithium mining claim.
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A crypto mining operation planned for northwest South Dakota fails after natural gas well leasing rights change hands.
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A House panel is advancing a bill to tax lithium mining profits. The move comes as the value of lithium has skyrocketed alongside demand for electric vehicles.
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Riley Pass has been the site of a 320-acre landform reclamation project after it was scared by uranium strip mining more than 50 years ago.
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The state Public Utilities Commission has adopted a September hearing date for Summit Carbon Solutions’ application to construct a carbon pipeline throughout eastern South Dakota.