Timeline

This lithium project is still in the exploration phase.

NOW is the time to stop it!

  • Current Status

    • Protest walk planned for September 25-28

    • Waiting for BLM decision on Exploration Project Phase 3

    • Cholla Ranch caretaker has observed other drilling farther from the site

  • July 2021

    • Environmental Assessment comment period closed

  • June 2021

    • Environmental Assessment public comment period extended one additional month.

  • May 2021

    • Environmental Assessment comment period extended one month

  • March 2021

    • BLM released Environmental Assessment for Exploration Project Phase 3

    • Public comment period for EA began

  • November 2020

    • BLM denied Tribe's request to participate as cooperating agency

  • June 2020

    • Bureau of Land Manage-ment (BLM) invited Hualapai Tribe to participate in consultation

    • Tribe accepted offer and requested to serve as cooperating agency

    • BLM did not respond

  • 2018-2019

    • Big Sandy Inc. started exploratory drilling to estimate how much lithium (and $$) they could mine

    • Drilled 12 and 37 holes in Exploration Phases 1 & 2

    • No tribal or community consultation, no environmental or cultural impact assessment

    • Legal under 1872 Mining Law