The environmental group Center For Biological Diversity has long said the flower - found nowhere else on earth - must be preserved at all costs. The group called Friday's move a "banner day for native plant conservation."

Just a reminder, CBD is the same group instrumental in the Block Thacker Pass movement... it is the group with a boat load of environmentalist lawyers.

OK, the Ioneer proposed Nevada lithium mine faces a proposed rule change, not something that is an accomplished fact... yet.  So how does it respond?  Of course, it tips its hat to CBD and says: 

Australia-based ioneer said it supports the agency's move and is "highly confident that with a combination of avoidance, propagation and translocation, we can achieve the successful coexistence of Tiehm's buckwheat and our environmentally significant project."

Crikey, Mate!!