The Chile Government has announced that it is progressing with streamlining the process for awarding lithium contracts across ...

Chile's government said it is moving forward with a simplified process to award lithium contracts in three salt flats, the mining ministry said on Tuesday.

"Otherwise, public bidding processes will be initiated, as was the case with the Ollague salt flat in the Antofagasta region, and Piedra Parada and Laguna Verde in the Atacama region," the ...

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 ...

Mining companies describe a potential system as 'unprecedented' in Chile, adding that it would comply with international ...

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.

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A new analysis shows that the La Isla salt flat holds 2.13 million metric tons of lithium, up 150% from a prior estimate.

Both sides say their goal is to create a model that will give Indigenous Atacama groups, also known as Lickanantay, an active role in the new venture in a salt flat that sweeps across one of the ...