In Salinas Grandes, Argentina, Indigenous communities confront the lithium rush to protect their rights, their ancestral lands, and cultural traditions from extraction that is drying up their waters and damaging the environment.

Shuar Arutam Maikiuants community is the last standing front of resistance against the Canadian mining company Solaris Copper’s mega-mining project in Ecuador.

In the heart of the Arizona high desert lies a battle for the soul of the land.

The ancient, sacred grounds of Apache Native territory are under threat from a looming giant — a massive copper mine that promises riches for the locals, and a pathway to the so-called green transition.

Camp Morningstar continues its fight against silica sand mining on sacred Anishinaabe lands in Manitoba, Canada.

The Bolivian government has promised that its mining industry will operate with transparency, credibility, and respect for the environment. The case of the community of Totoral Chico in the Ayllu Acre Antequera area, where a group made up predominantly of Indigenous women was attacked by workers from the Avicaya Mining Union, calls this promise into question.

In Espinar Province, located in the highlands of Peru, Glencore has been running a gigantic copper mine since 2013. The mine has had a dramatic impact on the province’s approximately 60,000 inhabitants, most of whom belong to the Quechua or K’ana Indigenous communities.

A proposed lithium mine in Thacker Pass, Nevada, threatens Indigenous burial sites, water resources, and wildlife.

Indigenous communities impacted by nickel mining by Nornickel in Russia search for avenues of justice.

For years, Q'eqchi’ community members in El Estor have been battling the Fenix Nickel Mine to protect their water sources.

The Atacama Desert in the north of Chile is the ancestral homeland of the Lickan Antay Indigenous Peoples. In addition to the beauty of the landscape, the region's salt flat is the largest salt deposit in the country and contains the largest lithium reserves in the world.

The Jequitinhonha Valley in southeast Brazil has been a hotbed for mining for decades, with new destructive transition mineral extractivist activities instigating even more conflicts, anxiety, and rights violations in Indigenous communities.

Cornwall Pit lithium mine in Greenbushes, Western Australia is known for being the longest continuously operated mining district in the area, beginning with tin mining in the late 1880s and continuing to mining of tantalum and lithium deposits today.