The mining companies Albemarle and SQM have laid out yearslong plans to bring desalinated seawater to their lithium operations in Chile’s Salar de Atacama so they can introduce direct lithium ...

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

The company's key asset is the Salar de ... their Atacama operations until 2060. One of the outcomes of the new Chilean policy is that the country is against evaporation ponds.

The flat is called Salar de Uyuni. The seemingly endless expanse ... known as brine, into large evaporation ponds where the sun helps concentrate lithium over time. These approaches require ...

The world's largest known lithium deposit exists within a vast salt pan called the Salar de Uyuni ... above-ground evaporation ponds. As liquid evaporates in successive ponds, undesirable salts ...