Evaporation ponds in the Salar de Atacama, Chile are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 22 crew member on the International Space Station. The Salar (salt flat) de Atacama in Chile ...

SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA (Reuters) - Earlier this year, the world's two biggest lithium producers publicly celebrated new deals with Chile's government that will allow them to vastly increase output of ...

Sociedad Quimica y Minera (SQM) (NYSE:SQM) and Codelco have finalized their long-awaited partnership, forming a new joint venture that will oversee lithium production in Chile’s Salar de Atacama ...

From the Salar de Atacama salt flat in the east to the Cordillera Domeyko mountains in the west, Sentinel-2 takes us over part of the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. The desert runs along part of ...

SQM (NYSE:SQM) rose about 7% after the closing bell on Wednesday as the Chilean miner announced a memorandum of understanding with the National Copper Corporation of Chile (Codelco) for the operation ...

Request to review environmental qualifications for SQM and Albemarle poses risk to lithium production projections. Freshwater influx from beyond salt flats may compensate for brine pumping impact on ...

Chile's environmental regulator said on Thursday it had fined Escondida mine, controlled by company BHP, $8.2 million for damage caused by water extraction in the Salar de Atacama salt flat. SANTIAGO, ...

Earlier this year, the world’s two biggest lithium producers publicly celebrated new deals with Chile’s government that will allow them to vastly increase output of the ultralight battery metal from ...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile is preparing major new restrictions on the extraction of water from the lithium-rich Salar de Atacama salt flats, home to top lithium miners Albemarle and SQM , the head of ...

Flamingos doing their thing at Laguna Chaxa, a saline lake in the Salar de Atacama, the world's third largest salt flat. The Sahara and Arabian deserts are justly famous for their oasis escapes ...