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

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 ...

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

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.

Salar de Atacama (Atacama salt flats ... a technology called brine mining – which involves pumping salt water from underground caves into huge ponds the size of 200 Olympic-sized swimming pools and ...

In Argentina’s Salar de Olaroz, the evaporation ponds cover 12 km2 (4.6 mi2) while in Chile’s Salar de Atacama, the ponds cover 49.9 km2 (19.3 mi2). To make sure there’s enough water ...

Peine sits on the edge of the nearly 1,200-square-mile Atacama Salt Flat, or Salar de Atacama ... from underground wells to a network of evaporation ponds. Under the blazing Atacama sun, water ...

The Salar de Atacama is one of the driest places in ... The company pumps the brine above ground into a network of large evaporation ponds. Water evaporates from the ponds over the course of ...

The concentrated lithium is eventually moved from the evaporation ponds to a nearby facility for processing ... term mining of lithium brines in other salt pans, such as the Salar de Atacama in Chile, ...

The world’s largest known lithium deposit is in Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, a white salt desert that ... The team also found a higher concentration of boron in evaporation ponds. However, the levels of ...