The competition regulator's approval follows endorsements from the EU, Brazil, Japan, South Korea, and Saudi Arabia.

Peine sits on the edge of the nearly 1,200-square-mile Atacama Salt Flat, or Salar de Atacama. Sitting beneath its surface, dissolved in underground saline waters called brine, is one of the ...

Until then, the salt flat had been regarded by Bolivians as ... Since the 1980s Chile has produced lithium from brine, and its Salar de Atacama is now the preeminent source of the chemical in ...

Chile’s National Mining Company (ENAMI) revealed that its Salares Altoandinos project could increase the country’s lithium ...

Both sides say their goal is to create a model that will give Indigenous Atacama groups, also known as Lickanantay, an active role in the new venture in a salt flat that sweeps across one of the ...

SALAR DE ATACAMA, Chile (Reuters) - Chile's Indigenous communities in the lithium-rich Atacama Desert are in talks with two of the nation's biggest miners to gain more influence over plans to ...