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 ...

The turquoise glimmer of open-air pools meets the dazzling white of a seemingly endless salt desert where hope and disillusionment collide in Latin America's "lithium triangle." A key component of ...

Chemical giant BASF SE dropped its plans to invest in lithium mining assets in Chile after a recent downward turn in the mineral's price, it was reported. The German company thus canceled all ...

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 ...