Rio Tinto (RIO) and Corporacion Nacional Del Cobre de Chile, or Codelco, have signed binding agreements to form a joint venture to develop and operate a high-grade lithium project in the Salar de ...

Salar de Maricunga is a large lithium-containing resource base in the Atacama region with the potential for scalable, long-life and low-cost production. Its brine has one of the highest average ...

SANTIAGO, Chile, May 19, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rio Tinto and Corporación Nacional Del Cobre de Chile ("Codelco") have signed binding agreements to form a joint venture to develop and operate a ...

This is the incredible moment a woman rides a bicycle in the world's largest salt flat, the Salar de Uyuni, in Bolivia on April 1. The 4,086-square-mile salt flat becomes a natural mirror when ...

In 2024, Bolivia’s state-owned lithium company, signed contracts worth a combined $2 billion with Russian and Chinese companies to mine lithium from Salar de Uyuni in the country’s southwest.

The world's largest known lithium deposit exists within a vast salt pan called the Salar de Uyuni, which stretches for thousands of square miles atop a high, dry Andean plateau in Bolivia.

Imagine a land so big it’s bigger than Jamaica. Salar de Uyuni is the world’s largest salt flat in Bolivia. It’s not just big; it’s also full of natural wonders. Underneath its surface, there’s 11.2 ...

Salar de Uyuni is the largest salt desert on Earth, stretching roughly 4,000 square miles (10,400 square kilometers) across the Andean plateau. Uyuni is famous for its gleaming expanses of salt ...

Salar de Uyuni likely contains the lion's share of the resource — 11.2 million tons (10.2 million metric tons), or about 38% of the world's known lithium supplies, according to a 2012 study.