The administration wants to “bring copper production home”, but the most likely result is that manufacturers will have little ...

In Chile’s Atacama Desert, large pools of lithium-rich brine lie under the harsh sun, quietly fueling the world’s shift to ...

In conversation with Mále Uribe, we set out to learn about the processes and ideas that work at the intersection of art, ...

The approval ensures future production and commercialisation once the current SQM Salar contract ends in 2030.

What’s the first image that comes to mind when you think about nature,” asks Aurora Radich, a nature therapist in northern Chile. “It’s a forest, right?” I’m sitting in front of Radich on a colourful ...

From its heart in the Atacama Desert, Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM) is a central player in the global energy transformation, controlling lithium and its derivatives, but also essential ...

Here's a quick recap of some of the most impactful resource sector news items for the week. The period saw the Ontario government back the Marathon copper-palladium project, while Rio Tinto ...

Atacama is the driest desert in the world. Even though the temperature gets down to minus 14 degrees in winter, it never snows because it almost never rains, year in, year out.

Chile’s Indigenous communities in the lithium-rich Atacama Desert are in talks with two of the nation’s biggest miners to gain more influence over plans to increase extraction of the battery ...

The Atacama Desert is a major source of lithium for EV batteries. As global demand ramps up, the local Lickanantay people are racing to protect already scarce water supplies and their way of life.

In the 1800s, dozens of small mining towns—now abandoned—were built here and there in the desert, along with a railway. In 1915, the Chuquicamata mine, which would become one of the world’s ...