A football court, paid by lithium companies, in the indiginous community of Peine, the closest town to the lithium mining operations, in the Atacama Salt Flat on Saturday 12 of April, 2024.

Codelco and SQM plan to raise lithium output by as much as 33% through 2060. The goal is part of a tectonic change in Chile's lithium sector after leftist President Gabriel Boric announced plans ...

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 ...

The town of Peine, near the Salt flats and one of the closest towns to the lithium mining operations. 13th of April, 2024. Antofagasta, Chile. Cristóbal Olivares for NPR ...

Chile Keeps Faith in Lithium Expansion Even as Glut Worsens ‘We’re convinced that there’s interest,’ Mining Minister says World No. 2 producer expects to push up output 7% this year ...

Chile's lithium output currently comes from Chile's SQM and U.S. miner Albemarle. (Reporting by Daina Beth Solomon, Additional reporting by Ernest Scheyder; Editing by Marguerita Choy) ...

Yet the exploitation of the salt flat is set to increase further still. Starting in January 2031, a public-private partnership will take over the lithium contracts, with national copper mining company ...

BYD declined a request for comment. Chile is the world's second-largest producer of lithium and has the largest known reserves of the mineral, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.