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Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM) is a Chilean chemical company and a supplier of plant nutrients, iodine, lithium and industrial chemicals. It is the world's biggest lithium producer. [2] SQM's natural resources and its main production facilities are located in the Atacama Desert in Tarapacá and Antofagasta regions.
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile's Atacama salt flat is sinking at a rate of 1 to 2 centimeters (0.4 to 0.8 inches) per year due to lithium brine extraction, according to a study by the University of Chile.
Northern Chile forms part of the Lithium Triangle with substantial reserves in the form of brine. The explosive growth in electric vehicles since 2015 has triggered increased demand. Chile is the main producer of lithium from brine. [14] Until 2017, when it was surpassed by Australia, Chile was the over-all main producer of lithium. [15]
Located in the Lithium Triangle, Salar de Atacama is the world's largest and purest active source of lithium, [19] and contained as of 2008 27% of the world's lithium reserve base, [20] and as of 2017 provided about 36% of the world's lithium carbonate supply, [21] followed by China with 23%.
Chile's millennial president, Gabriel Boric, promised to mine differently. When Boric announced his ambitious plan in April to take state control over the country's lithium industry and expand ...
There are concerns that lithium producers are drawing too much lithium-rich brine, or saltwater, from pools beneath the Atacama, the world's driest desert. A water fight in Chile's Atacama raises ...
Ongoing production of lithium chloride concentrate and lithium carbonate for the remainder of 2024 CALGARY, Alberta, Oct. 23, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Volt Lithium Corp. (TSXV: VLT | OTCQB: VLTLF I FSE: I2D) (" Volt " or the " Company ") announces the successful production of battery-grade lithium carbonate from its U.S. field operations in the ...
Download as PDF ; Printable version; In other projects ... Lithium mine production (tonnes) Rank Country Year 2018 [2] 2019 [3] 2020 [4] 2021 [4] 2022 [5] 2023 [6] 1 ...