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 ...

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 ...

The lithium in the brine beneath the brilliant white Atacama salt flat, which stretches out across the valley floor, has become a global resource. "Our life is contained in that water," says Cruz ...

The lithium in the brine beneath the brilliant white Atacama salt flat, which stretches out across the valley floor, has become a global resource. The town of Peine, near the Salt flats and one of ...

The Council of Atacameño Peoples filed a complaint in October 2024 against lithium mining companies operating in Chile’s Atacama salt flat, accusing them of causing the land to sink around ...