The country of Chile owns the mining rights to the Atacama Salt Flat. The Chilean Economic Development Agency, or Corfo, manages the agreements and leases with private companies operating and ...

New research reveals that lithium-rich brines have a chemistry dominated by boron, fundamentally different from typical ...

Scientists from Duke University in the United States have found that lithium-rich brine solutions contain a high ...

Chile's state-owned copper giant Codelco announced a partnership on Monday with British-Australian miner Rio Tinto to extract ...

In the spectacular multicolored mountains of the lower Andes, el agua es vida — water is life. During Carnaval, women poured ...

Chile’s economy grew more than expected in April as mining output jumped, offsetting a drop in manufacturing and retail, ...

Much of the world's lithium occurs in salty waters with fundamentally different chemistry than other naturally saline waters ...

Lickanantay Indigenous communities in Chile's Atacama Desert are negotiating with mining giants Codelco and ... And we have the power to close the salt flat if needed.” The Atacama Indigenous ...