The mining companies Albemarle and SQM have laid out yearslong plans to bring desalinated seawater to their lithium operations in Chile’s Salar de Atacama so they can introduce direct lithium ...

The company's key asset is the Salar de ... their Atacama operations until 2060. One of the outcomes of the new Chilean policy is that the country is against evaporation ponds.

The world's largest known lithium deposit exists within a vast salt pan called the Salar de Uyuni ... above-ground evaporation ponds. As liquid evaporates in successive ponds, undesirable salts ...

Compared with other salt flats like Salar de Atacama in Chile ... Andes gets concentrated more and more over time because of [evaporation]," McKnight said. While resource exploration companies ...