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Bloomberg
01-07-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Chile Lithium Expansion Cleared by Little-Known Nuclear Agency
A little-known nuclear agency signed off on a proposal that clears the way for a major lithium expansion over the coming decades in Chile, the nation with the biggest reserves. The Chilean Nuclear Energy Commission, or CCHEN by its Spanish initials, approved a request by Codelco for extraction at the Atacama salt flat operation — currently controlled by SQM — from 2031 to 2060.
Reuters
25-06-2025
- Business
- Reuters
Chilean lithium miner SQM begins laying off 5% of local workforce
SANTIAGO, June 25 (Reuters) - Chilean lithium miner SQM ( opens new tab has begun laying off workers in its Chilean operations, according to a union memo to workers seen by Reuters on Wednesday. A union source said the dismissals would amount to 5% of its workforce nationwide. SQM employs 8,344 people in Chile and elsewhere, with three-quarters working at the northern Chile operations where it extracts lithium, a key battery metal. SQM declined to comment.
Yahoo
08-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Soaring Gold Prices Draw Illicit Miners—and Armed Gangs—to Colombia's Jungles
PUERTO CLAVER, Colombia—The lure of even a few specks of gold compels Elizabeth Mosquera awake before dawn to slog to a muddy pit, where she wades into waist-deep water and starts to pan. 'What you earn in a month in a regular job, you can make here in an hour or two,' said Mosquera, 47 years old. In Colombia, the prospecting economy is driving revenue to drug-trafficking organizations that are already awash in proceeds from the record supplies of cocaine they are exporting to the U.S. and Europe, law-enforcement officials said.
Bloomberg
03-06-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Peru Says Large-Scale Informal Copper Mining Exists And Could Grow
Peru's government is acknowledging for the first time the existence of large-scale informal mining of copper, warning that high prices could see the activity grow in the near future. The government is on alert for large artisanal mining of copper, especially in an area where mineral rights belong to the Las Bambas mine run by China's MMG Ltd., Energy and Mines Minister Jorge Montero told foreign media in Lima on Tuesday.
Reuters
20-05-2025
- Business
- Reuters
Argentina approves $2.5 bln Rio Tinto lithium mining project
BUENOS AIRES, May 20 (Reuters) - Argentina's government on Tuesday approved a $2.5 billion lithium mining project by Anglo-Australian giant Rio Tinto, marking the first mining project under a new investment incentive regime. The approval of Rio Tinto's Rincon project under the RIGI incentive scheme was announced by the country's mining and energy coordination secretary Daniel Gonzalez at a conference in the capital Buenos Aires.
