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 ...

The company will invest in the Salar de Maricunga project as it focuses on reducing its dependence on iron ore.

Ilya Epikhin, principal at Arthur D. Little explains how drought, demand and desalination are transforming water use at mines ...

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

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 ...

The researchers took brine samples from evaporation ponds like this one, located at the Salar de Uyuni in Boliva. Not for release until 14:00 (2:00 p.m.) U.S. Eastern Time Friday, May 23, 2025.

DLE takes a matter of hours to separate lithium from brines, while evaporation ponds can take as long as ... View of the SQM lithium plant in Chile’s Atacama Desert. In 2023 the country, which ...