Chile's competition regulator has approved Codelco and SQM's joint venture to boost lithium production in the Atacama salt ...

SQM’s low-cost lithium deposit in the Salar de Atacama boasts the highest concentration of lithium globally and benefits from high evaporation rates in the Chilean desert. As electric vehicle ...

Dionicio Colque, 42, has fond memories of growing up on the edge of Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia. It’s the world’s largest salt ...

One epicenter is the Salar de Atacama in Chile, where half of the world’s reserves are said to be. To extract the lithium, brine is pumped up from a depth of 20-40 meters and fed into ...

Since the 1980s Chile has produced lithium from brine, and its Salar de Atacama is now the preeminent ... ion battery that will power the Audi e-tron, an electric SUV. The liquid-cooled battery ...

Many years ago, I read an article about the new hotness: lithium batteries ... Brine ponds at the Salar de Atacama in Chile, as seen from space. For scale, each of the long, skinny ponds in ...

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