ATACAMA DESERT, Chile — At the top of a craggy path ... the Indigenous Lickanantay people's resistance to the lithium mining that many say is tearing their communities apart.

Diversified mining company Rio Tinto Group ... announcing on Monday an agreement with Chile’s State-owned Codelco to jointly develop a major lithium project in the Salar de Maricunga.

From afar, they look like fields of Arctic snow ... Argentine concerns are born in neighboring Chile, where lithium mining has been in full force for decades in the Atacama Desert, the driest ...

According to the Chilean Copper Commission, which is responsible for generating statistics and reports on mining in Chile, global lithium demand is expected to reach 3.8 million metric tons of ...

Chile’s mining sector is advanced because of companies ... For full disclaimer information, please click here. (Top photo of lithium fields and evaporation ponds in Chile’s Atacama Desert ...

Lickanantay Indigenous communities in Chile's Atacama Desert are negotiating with mining giants Codelco and SQM to secure a historic governance role in lithium extraction, which accounts for 25% ...

Chile’s Atacama salt flat is sinking ... Native communities that ring the Atacama worry that mining may be depleting scarce freshwater and lithium-rich brine, reducing its availability for ...

Production cutbacks by lithium companies in response to low prices have tightened supply forecasts, but a global surplus is still expected for 2024 and 2025, Chile's government agency for mining ...

the closest town to the lithium mining operations, in the Atacama Salt Flat on Saturday 12 of April, 2024. Antofagasta, Chile.

Chile's Atacama salt flat is sinking at a rate of 1-2 centimeters per year due to lithium brine extraction, Reuters reported Thursday, citing a study by the University of Chile that used satellite ...

ATACAMA DESERT, Chile — At the top of a craggy path in Socaire, a hilltop village deep in Chile's Atacama Desert, a black flag whips in the wind above Jeanette Cruz's house. The desert sun has ...