New report finds Canada needs to ramp up production of critical minerals or risk a shortage. To get there, it recommends ...

Mining, with its complex effluent streams and evolving compliance requirements, presents a robust growth vertical for ferric ...

The Salar de Maricunga, located in Chile’s Atacama region, hosts one of the highest-grade lithium brine resources globally, with strong potential for scalable, low-cost production. The joint ...

Ilya Epikhin of US-based consultancy Arthur D. Little explains how drought, demand and desalination are transforming water ...

This lithium is contained within salt lakes (salars) that host mineral-rich brines that have to be pumped up to surface and traditionally left in evaporation ponds to be concentrated ... has been ...

Chile's SQM missed Q1 profit estimates as lithium prices continue to decline amid global oversupply. The miner expects realized lithium prices to fall further in the second quarter of 2025.

In a field demonstration, specially engineered floats boost production of lithium and other critical materials in an evaporation pond in Chile. Photo courtesy of La Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile ...

Chile and Argentina have long dominated news from the Lithium Triangle, but direct lithium extraction could provide the key for Bolivia to join its neighbours. This lithium is contained within ...

One of the project’s most notable elements is its planned use of direct lithium extraction (DLE), a relatively new method that differs from the traditional evaporation pond techniques currently ...