The approval ensures future production and commercialisation once the current SQM Salar contract ends in 2030.

Nestled between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, the Atacama Desert has earned the title of the driest place on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...