Sept 6 (Reuters) - Lithium producer SQM's operations in the Salar de Atacama salt flat have achieved IRMA certification, it said on Wednesday, meaning all Chile's lithium mining facilities have ...

Seattle, WA, USA, Sept. 06, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 6 Sep 2023 – Today the Initiative for Responsible Mining (IRMA) released the results of an independent audit of SQM’s Salar de Atacama ...

What’s the first image that comes to mind when you think about nature,” asks Aurora Radich, a nature therapist in northern ...

Water is a critical input in mining, used to process ores, suppress dust and cool equipment – but in Chile’s Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on Earth, fresh water is scarce and heavily ...

The mining companies Albemarle and SQM have laid out yearslong plans to bring desalinated seawater to their lithium operations in Chile’s Salar de Atacama so they can introduce direct lithium ...

Rio Tinto has signed binding agreements with Chilean state-owned copper mining company Codelco to establish a joint venture (JV) to develop the Salar de Maricunga lithium project in Chile by ...

Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile is a key lithium producer with unique Atacama assets, powering global EV and battery supply chains, and supplying essential agricultural inputs like iodine, and ...

Peine sits on the edge of the nearly 1,200-square-mile Atacama Salt Flat, or Salar de Atacama. ... Mining trucks load lithium sulfate, as seen in Chile’s Atacama Salt Flat on July 29, 2024.

SALAR DE ATACAMA, Chile (Reuters) - Chile's Indigenous communities in the lithium-rich Atacama Desert are in talks with two of the nation's biggest miners to gain more influence over plans to ...

Salar de Maricunga is a large lithium-containing resource base in the Atacama region with the potential for scalable, long-life and low-cost production. Its brine has one of the highest average ...

Compared with other salt flats like Salar de Atacama in Chile, which has a salt crust more than 3,300 feet (1,000 m) thick in some places, Salar de Uyuni is "pretty thin," McKnight said, with a ...

Sept 6 (Reuters) - Lithium producer SQM's operations in the Salar de Atacama salt flat have achieved IRMA certification, it said on Wednesday, meaning all Chile's lithium mining facilities have ...