The Atacama Desert is a major source of lithium for EV batteries. As global demand ramps up, the local Lickanantay people are ...

Since the 1980s Chile has produced lithium from brine, and its Salar de Atacama is now the preeminent source of the chemical in Latin America. Chile’s government has been the most hospitable to ...

Currently, the biggest lithium mine operated by SQM (one of the biggest in the world) is in Chile, operating under the name of Salar de Atacama, since 1990. The company has been expanding their ...

SQM’s low-cost lithium deposit in the Salar de Atacama boasts the highest concentration of lithium globally and benefits from high evaporation rates in the Chilean desert. As electric vehicle ...

I have always been fascinated by the wonders of nature, and the Atacama Desert in South America is a place that truly captivates the imagination. Stretching across northern Chile, the Atacama ...

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 ...