In a national prime time address, Boric said last Thursday a new state-owned company would work to slash the environmental impacts of lithium production by shifting away from 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.

Albemarle and SQM, the only two lithium producers in Chile, currently extract the metal using mass evaporation ponds from brine taken from underground reservoirs. President Gabriel Boric has ...

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

Chile’s President Gabriel Boric ... including favouring direct lithium extraction (DLE) over evaporation ponds — the method currently used. Applying DLE is expected to speed up production ...

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.

Production cutbacks by lithium companies in response to low prices have tightened supply forecasts, but a global surplus is still expected for 2024 and 2025, Chile's government agency for mining ...

Chile's total lithium resources are 28% greater than previously estimated, according to new studies of salt flats in the northern Antofagasta region that show a higher amounts of the metal ...

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 ...