Lithium Americas (NYSE: LAC) stock doubled Wednesday after Reuters reported the U.S. government may take a 10% stake in the start-up miner of lithium for electric car batteries.

Soon after, investors saw a 10.8% spike (through 11:25 a.m. ET) in a completely different mining stock -- Energy Fuels (NYSEMKT: UUUU), which mines not lithium, but uranium for nuclear power plants.

The two stocks are not the same, but the reason they're rising might be.

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