South America

Latin America may be on the rise. Governments and businesses around the world are racing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and the region is a major supplier of the minerals that underpin solar panels, wind turbines and electric vehicles. But extracting these minerals is expensive and has environmental and social consequences. “Everybody wants to stop

Lithium triangles are usually in the limelight, but there are players in other regions who are entering the lithium market or expanding their presence in the lithium market. Brazil, for example, has been producing lithium from pegmatite rocks since the 1970s. This is the second most concentrated form of metal, mainly for ceramics and glass.

Chile currently has the largest proved reserves in the world, despite having half the resource potential of Argentina and Bolivia. In terms of total lithium content, it is second only to Australia, which surpassed the Andean country for the first time in 2017. However, Chile’s production costs are about one-third that of Australia’s Pacific Ocean,

After decades of misfires, Bolivia wants to finally find a successful way to harness the world’s highest reserves of lithium, a mineral essential to the global transition from fossil fuels. Bolivia has 21 million tonnes of lithium brine reserves, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), but so far we have not been able

Brazil Minerals announced last week that it increased its lithium footprint in Brazil by a factor of 32 to 9,677 acres by adding three lithium claims totaling 9,389 acres in Minas Gerais. Lithium in Brazil comes primarily from the Hard Rock Spojumen deposit. It is considered the highest quality in the world due to its

In Chile, Salar de Atacama (Salt Lake in Spanish) contains about 27% of the world’s lithium reserves base and supplies about 30% of the world’s lithium carbonate supply. Chile is the most developed country in terms of lithium extraction, followed by Argentina. Bolivia, on the other hand, is still in its infancy. In a recent