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 ...

The famed Lithium Triangle encompasses parts of Chile, Argentina and Bolivia and supplies the majority of the world’s lithium ...

But the Duke team uncovered a dramatically different scenario at the Salar de Uyuni, a giant salt pan situated on ... By contrast, brine samples from evaporation ponds were highly acidic. Computer ...

Ilya Epikhin of US-based consultancy Arthur D. Little explains how drought, demand and desalination are transforming water ...

But what the researchers found at Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni – a giant salt pan known to hold ... The team analyzed both the natural brine and samples taken from the evaporation ponds. They noticed a ...

Water is a critical input in mining, used to process ores, suppress dust and cool equipment – but in Chile’s Atacama Desert ... cutting evaporation by 30%, and Anglo American’s hydraulic ...

The Kuska Project is located on 10,200 hectares in the Salar de Ollagüe area, Antofagasta Region, Chile. Wealth Minerals Ltd. began developing the Project in 2019 and has completed two ...

California officials sent water flowing to create new wetlands along the shores of the shrinking Salton Sea. The project is ...

These insanely blue pools in the middle of the Red Rock Desert are potash evaporation ponds. The color comes from dye added to speed up solar evaporation. They collect potassium chloride for ...