Chad Yeftich, left, VP Corporate Development and External Affairs at Ioneer, and Bernard Rowe, managing director at Ioneer, look at Tiehm buckwheat, a small yellow flower that grows in lithium-rich Nevada soil, as they lead a tour of the near by Rhyolite Ridge lithium-boron mine project site, on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024, in Esmeralda County, Nevada. Rhyolite Ridge holds the largest known lithium and boron deposit in North America. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye