Lithium production, crucial for the clean energy transition, faces significant challenges due to its high freshwater ...

Chile’s Atacama salt flat, home to leading lithium producers SQM and Albemarle ... which is found in brine pools beneath the desert floor, could sap scarce water supplies.

Lithium is often extracted from brine pools in arid regions such as the Atacama Desert in Chile. These areas are already ...

In this image, the ethereal blue and green pools create a mirage-like effect across vast salt flats, capturing not an alien landscape but rather the engineered terrain of Chile’s largest lithium ...

New research reveals that current global water models dramatically overestimate the amount of freshwater available for ...

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 ...

Indigenous communities in Chiles Atacama Desert are negotiating with state miner Codelco and lithium giant SQM for greater ...

Chile's Indigenous communities in the lithium-rich Atacama Desert are in talks with two of the nation's biggest miners to ...

Chile's indigenous communities in the lithium-rich Atacama Desert are in talks with major miners Codelco and SQM to gain more ...