Chile awarded two lithium mining quotas to the Chinese firm BYD and a local company as part of its efforts to boost the production of the ultralight metal used in electric batteries, the Mining Ministry reported. Each company was awarded a quota of 80,000 tons of marketable metallic lithium, said the ministry, which specified that […]
Tag: lithium
Chilean government acknowledges failures to better communicate the benefits of the lithium tender
The Chilean Minister of Energy and Mining, Juan Carlos Jobet, acknowledged that he could have “made more efforts” to better publicize the disputed tender for 400,000 tons of lithium that the opposition seeks to stop. “What one receives are not necessarily questions that come out of curiosity, but rather they receive attacks, and that goes […]
In California, the promise of lithium rekindles hopes in the Salton Sea
The Salton Sea attracted the cream of Hollywood in the 1950s, before succumbing to oblivion. Now huge reserves of lithium in its entrails they rekindle the hopes of the communities that reside around the greater lake of California. “This is definitely the largest lithium reserve identified in the United States,” says Jim Turner, COO of […]
Chilean justice rejects appeal that sought to paralyze the tender for new lithium contracts
Updated on 07/01/2022 02:21 pm The Chilean justice rejected on Friday, due to being out of date, a protection appeal presented this week by a group of opposition deputies who sought to stop a tender promoted by the government to auction new lithium contracts. The Santiago Appeals Court said that the tender was known in […]
Lithium tender at the end of Piñera’s government in Chile raises suspicions in Boric
The lithium tender that will be awarded less than two months before the term of Sebastián Piñera’s government in Chile, the world’s second largest producer of the metal, raised suspicions in the opposition and in the team of the president-elect, the leftist Gabriel Boric. The auction seeks to award 400,000 tons of metallic lithium or […]
Bolivia Says Direct Lithium Extraction Will Speed Up Industrialization
The government of Bolivia defended this Wednesday that the application of the technology of direct extraction of lithium (EDL) will allow it to accelerate the industrialization process of this resource and achieve the long-awaited production of derivatives on an industrial scale by 2025. The Deputy Minister of High Energy Technologies, Álvaro Arnez, said that with […]
Chile: left-wing congressmen now present motion to stop lithium tender
Chilean opposition congressmen presented a motion to suspend the tender for 400,000 tons of lithium that could be exploited for a period of 29 years, after the presentation on the eve (Tuesday) of a judicial appeal, against the initiative promoted in recent months of the government of Sebastián Piñera and that has generated controversy. “Is […]
Chilean lithium shows challenges on the path to clean energy
:quality(75)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/elcomercio/U4ZULOJJ5ZEDZOZQQ7LLIYZS34.jpg)
Updated on 05/01/2022 03:23 am Growing opposition to new lithium contracts in Chile is the latest indication of how difficult it will be for the world to produce the building blocks of the clean energy transition. In the last months of his mandate, the Government of the President Sebastian Piñera is about to grant new […]
Left-wing deputies present judicial appeal to stop the tender for new lithium contracts in Chile
Updated on 04/01/2022 04:25 pm A group of Chilean left-wing deputies presented before the courts a protection appeal to stop the bidding of contracts for the operation of lithium promoted by the government, in which the world’s two largest light metal producers are in the running. Lawmakers from the center-left opposition party PPD presented the […]
SQM and Albemarle, in competition for the tender of new lithium contracts in Chile
Updated 12/30/2021 12:45 pm The world’s largest lithium producers, Albemarle and SQM, submitted proposals in a tender for lithium operation contracts in Chile promoted by the government, revealed a minute published by the Chilean Mining Ministry. Chile announced the auction process in October to award operating contracts to explore and produce 400,000 tonnes of lithium […]