Bryson DeChambeau took a detour to Utah for a helicopter ride and some souvenirs recently. The LIV Golf star traveled to the ...

Through its access to high-quality mineral deposits, Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile is a large, low-cost producer of lithium, iodine, and nitrates used in specialty fertilizers. SQM’s crown jewels ...

In Empire of AI, journalist Karen Hao writes about the rise of OpenAI and the impacts of AI around the world. Below is an ...

Australian mining group Rio Tinto has announced a partnership with the Chilean state-owned mining company Codelco. The pair have signed binding ...

These 30 photos showcase the most mind-blowingly gorgeous, almost unreal places our world has to offer. Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni, often referred to as nature's mirror, is the largest salt flat in the ...

In the main square of Peine, a village of low houses and dirt streets in Chile’s northern Atacama Desert, there is barely any movement. It’s midday and the sun beats down from a cloudless sky.

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 ...

Compared with other salt flats like Salar de Atacama in Chile, which has a salt crust more than 3,300 feet (1,000 m) thick in some places, Salar de Uyuni is "pretty thin," McKnight said ...

Here’s a guide to help: San Pedro de Atacama ... visiting Salar de Uyuni on the final day. The star-studded night sky casts the salt flats shades of blue. During the dry season the ground ...

The Atacama salt flat is the only one in the country that has so far been exploited. Currently, two private companies, Albermarle Chile and Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM), operate the ...