which includes elements that would need approval from Chile’s Congress. SQM and Albemarle currently use large evaporation ponds to concentrate lithium-rich brines before converting the brine ...

Researchers in South Korea have conducted a literature review on recorded cases of floating PV plants placed on mine pit ...

In the main square of Peine, a village of low houses and dirt streets in Chile ... transporting lithium-laden brine extracted from underground wells to a network of evaporation ponds.

CABILDO, Chile, June 24 (Reuters ... "The little I used to water my fruit trees, fill the pond, the avocados, the tailing burst and it got contaminated," said Jose Olmos, a local farmer.

SQM and Albemarle Corp, Chile's two existing lithium producers, use evaporation ponds to produce the metal. Both are studying DLE, though neither have deployed it. Livent Corp uses a variation of ...

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.