The Colla Indigenous people claim Rio Tinto’s plans to extract the key mineral will harm fragile ecosystems and livelihoods ...

Cristóbal Olivares for NPR 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 ...

Compañia Minera Maricunga S.a. SANTIAGO, March 26 (Reuters) - Chile's government on Tuesday opened up more than two dozen lithium salt flats to private investment, while reserving the prolific Atacama ...

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 ...

The $870 million project in the northern province of Salta puts Argentina, the world’s No. 4 lithium producer, in the spotlight ahead of projects due online in the country in the coming months from ...

The partnership between the firms will allow them to jointly ramp up the exploitation of lithium in the Atacama salt flat ...

In this undated photo, mineral harvesting ponds used by Compass Minerals cover the northeast corner of the Great Salt Lake. Multiple companies pump the mineral-rich water of the lake into shallow ...

Test results achieved a lithium extraction rate of 92.9%, producing an overall lithium chloride purity above 99.5%, the ...

ONE OF THE BIG DANGERS AFTER HURRICANE HELENE IS THIS FIRES INVOLVING LITHIUM ION BATTERIES. BY NOW, MANY OF US HAVE SEEN THIS VIDEO FROM PINELLAS COUNTY OF A TESLA BURSTING INTO FLAMES, PARKED INSIDE ...

SALT LAKE CITY — An electric scooter may be to blame for a small apartment fire Monday morning in Salt Lake City. It's the fourth fire potentially involving lithium-ion batteries on the Wasatch Front ...