You could be forgiven for thinking there’s no water in the Atacama Desert. In fact, the driest desert on Earth has ...

Although lithium has been known and well-characterized ... surface also play a part in the mining process. Brine ponds at the Salar de Atacama in Chile, as seen from space. For scale, each of ...

The Salar de Atacama covers a huge area "It used to be so green, now it's just hard, cracked ground. We can't keep llamas anymore," she laments. Sara says that lithium mining on the Atacama is ...

“Given its relevance in lithium production and reserves, the Atacama salt flat deserves special attention in our strategy,” said Boric. Today two private companies operate in the Salar de ...

Since the 1980s Chile has produced lithium from brine, and its Salar de Atacama is now the preeminent source of the chemical in Latin America. Chile’s government has been the most hospitable to ...

The Salar de Atacama Mine is owned and operated by Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (NYSE:SQM) and is in Antofagasta, Chile. SQM produces potassium chloride and potassium sulfate and lithium ...

Excluding Bolivia, the Cauchari-Olaroz is considered the third-largest lithium brine resource in the world, following the Salar de Atacama in Chile and the Salar del Hombre Muerto in Argentina.

Earlier this month, SQM entered into a partnership agreement with Chile’s state-owned copper miner Codelco, paving the way for joint lithium exploration in the country's Salar de Atacama.

Rio Tinto will invest $2.5 billion to increase production capacity at its Argentina lithium project, it said on Thursday, as ...

The partnership targets the Salar de Atacama reserve in northern Chile as other leading players in the industry world, such as Tesla, which will rely on that source of energy for their future ...

The Salar de Atacama covers a huge area "It used to be so green, now it's just hard, cracked ground. We can't keep llamas anymore," she laments. Sara says that lithium mining on the Atacama is ...