According to him United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Latin America hosts approximately 60% of the lithium identified in the world. Argentina, Bolivia and Chile are considered to be in the “lithium triangle”, an area of the Andes that borders the three neighbors and is rich in lithium reserves. lithium. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) […]
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More than S/300 million have been lost due to protests nationwide, according to the MEF
The head of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF), Alex Contrerasannounced that the protests at the national level have generated a loss of more than S/300 million so far this year, with “a very negative focused impact on the protest areas.” In this sense, he recalled that Puno is the region most affected by […]
Eramet will invest US$ 400 million in a lithium project in Argentina
Updated on 03/03/2022 07:39 pm The French mining group Eramet announced that it will invest US$400 million in a lithium in the province Argentina of Salta, in the northwest of the country. The investment project was presented by the president and executive director of Eramet, Christel Bories, in a meeting with the Argentine president, Alberto […]
López Obrador announces that his government will create a state company to exploit lithium in Mexico
Updated on 02/02/2022 02:12 pm The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, affirmed that his government will create a state company to exploit lithium, a vital mineral for electric car batteries and new technologies. “It has already been decided that lithium is going to be exploited for the benefit of Mexicans, for Mexicans. We […]
Big copper companies look at Argentina again, says McEwen
Huge deposits and more favorable policies have made Argentina at a point of attraction lithium in recent years. Now the world industry copper has turned to look at the South American nation. That’s the view of Rob McEwen, whose namesake company is drilling a property in San Juan province, near the Chilean border. Called Los […]
Will Europe open lithium mines for the energy transition?
Europe is so interested in the lithium, cobalt and nickel –essential metals in the manufacture of electric batteries that are going to replace hydrocarbons causing the global warming-– which prepares the opening of mines and refineries to try to reduce its dependence on imports. The continent has many mines under development or planned, but today […]
Local court in Chile accepts judicial appeal and orders to paralyze recent lithium tender
A local court in northern Chile accepted an appeal for protection and ordered a halt to a tender for new contracts for lithium production that this week awarded quotas to the Chinese firm BYD and a local company. The Court of Appeals of the city of Copiapó, capital of the Atacama region, decided to accept […]
Chile, the second largest lithium producer in the world, seeks with the support of private companies not to lose its position
Chile, the country with the most reserves of lithium in the world and the second producer after Australia, seeks to join the boom of this mineral, essential for electric car batteries, with the first tender it awarded this Wednesday, for 160,000 tons of this raw material, and which was opposed by sectors of the Chilean […]
China BYD and local firm obtain quotas in lithium tender in Chile for US $ 121 million
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 […]
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 […]