Mines & Extraction · mine
Salar de Atacama
Chile · Brine
- Opened
- 1984
- Region
- Antofagasta Region
- Status
- Active
- Country
- Chile
- Type
- Brine
- Latitude
- -23.5
- Longitude
- -68.3
Notes
The richest lithium brine known, pumped from beneath the salt flat into evaporation ponds that cover 40 km²; the water it removes from the driest desert on Earth is the centre of the argument about it.
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