Evaporation ponds in the Salar de Atacama, Chile are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 22 crew member on the International Space Station. The Salar (salt flat) de Atacama in Chile ...

Chile’s state-owned development agency Corfo has awarded up to $5.8 million to two research projects focused on direct ...

SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA (Reuters) - Earlier this year, the world's two biggest lithium producers publicly celebrated new deals with Chile's government that will allow them to vastly increase output of ...

Sociedad Quimica y Minera (SQM) (NYSE:SQM) and Codelco have finalized their long-awaited partnership, forming a new joint venture that will oversee lithium production in Chile’s Salar de Atacama ...

Request to review environmental qualifications for SQM and Albemarle poses risk to lithium production projections. Freshwater influx from beyond salt flats may compensate for brine pumping impact on ...

SQM (NYSE:SQM) rose about 7% after the closing bell on Wednesday as the Chilean miner announced a memorandum of understanding with the National Copper Corporation of Chile (Codelco) for the operation ...

Chile's environmental regulator said on Thursday it had fined Escondida mine, controlled by company BHP, $8.2 million for damage caused by water extraction in the Salar de Atacama salt flat. SANTIAGO, ...

Scientists have studied the driest regions of the Atacama Desert to understand whether life could exist on Mars ...

From the Salar de Atacama salt flat in the east to the Cordillera Domeyko mountains in the west, Sentinel-2 takes us over part of the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. The desert runs along part of ...

Flamingos doing their thing at Laguna Chaxa, a saline lake in the Salar de Atacama, the world's third largest salt flat. The Sahara and Arabian deserts are justly famous for their oasis escapes ...