Chad Yeftich, left, vice president of corporate development and external affairs at Ioneer, and Bernard Rowe, managing director at Ioneer, look at Tiehm’s buckwheat, a small yellow wildflower that grows in lithium-rich Nevada soil, as they lead a tour of the nearby Rhyolite Ridge lithium-boron mine project site on Feb. 22, 2024, in Esmeralda County. Rhyolite Ridge holds the largest known lithium-boron deposit in North America. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye