Lithium Americas Corp. is a Canadian mining corporation. It is currently developing the Thacker Pass Lithium Mine in northern Nevada.
History
The first incarnation of Lithium Americas Corp. was founded in the summer of 2009, and was a spin-off of Argentinian lithium operations in Caucharí-Olaroz owned by Latin American Minerals Inc and Grupo Minero Los Boros, an Argentinean borax producer.[2][3]
In September 2015, Lithium Americas merged into another Canadian junior mining company, the Western Lithium USA Corporation.[4][5] The Western Lithium USA Corporation was founded in 2008 as a spinoff of Western Uranium's lithium project in the King Valley (now known as Thacker Pass).[6] Post-merger, on March 22, 2016, Western Lithium announced it would rename itself to the Lithium Americas Corp.