Lithium production, crucial for the clean energy transition, faces significant challenges due to its high freshwater ...

Indian officials will visit Chile next week to discuss plans for four state companies to take a stake in two lithium projects of the world’s No. 2 producer of the metal, SQM, a source said.

across Chile, Argentina and Bolivia, where an arid climate and water-trapping basins have helped form an estimated 98 million tons of lithium deposits. Mining the lithium involves extracting salty ...

In January, a Chilean representative for Exxon met with mining ministry officials to discuss an upcoming visit by executives "interested in lithium projects in Chile," according to a registry of ...

In several communities surrounding the Atacama Salt Flat, black flags on building facades reflect residents’ discontent with the future of lithium extraction. Muriel Alarcon / Grist Then there is the ...

Chile’s SQM (NYSE: SQM), the world’s second-largest lithium producer, is scaling back spending this year as a prolonged weakness in prices for the battery metal continues to erode margins.

It makes lithium mining companies an appealing target ... (Top photo of lithium fields and evaporation ponds in Chile’s Atacama Desert: Adobe Stock) ...

Indian officials will visit Chile next week to discuss plans for four State companies to take a stake in two lithium projects of the world's No. 2 producer of the metal, SQM, a source said.