Top Chilean lithium miner SQM SQM.SN, the world's No. 2 producer of the metal, also has holdings at Maricunga. Chile's mining ministry in November asked SQM to decide what it will do with its ...

And that means a LOT of mining. A copper mine in the ... is an awful lot of the world’s copper and lithium is to be found in a single country: Chile. Chile has the world's biggest reserves ...

C hile's Atacama salt flat is sinking at a rate of 1-2 centimeters per year due to lithium brine extraction, Reuters reported Thursday, citing a study by the University of Chile that used ...