The world's largest known lithium deposit exists within a vast salt pan called the Salar de Uyuni, which stretches for ...

Chile’s Atacama salt flat, home to leading lithium producers ... further amid concerns that mining the white metal, which is found in brine pools beneath the desert floor, could sap scarce ...

M23 rebels' advance in mineral-rich eastern Democratic Republic of Congo puts green minerals rush in the spotlight.

Chile has wrapped up the initial phase of its efforts to award special lithium operation ... and Laguna Verde in Atacama. A working group overseen by the mining ministry is set to review the ...

where mining reforms collide with Indigenous rights, and in Chile’s Atacama Desert, where wildlife habitats are under threat. The environmental toll of lithium extraction cannot be overlooked.

Many years ago, I read an article about the new hotness: lithium batteries ... surface also play a part in the mining process. Brine ponds at the Salar de Atacama in Chile, as seen from space.

The Atacama Desert, known as one of the driest places on Earth, presents a unique environment for studying hydrology and geology. Its extreme aridity and ancient geological formations have led to ...

But our desert ... lithium are still extracted in mines in the south of the Atacama today, as is saltpetre, whose acid was once used to make gunpowder. A man who brings together the worlds of ...