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Fears of regional war grow after Iran strike.
...But what it really wants is the opportunity, by whatever means, to operate in the Salar de Atacama.”...
$1.1bn deal comes after Australian billionaire thwarts Liontown takeover
...Chile’s lithium reserves are concentrated in the brine lakes beneath salt flats such as the Salar de Atacama, a 3,000km² expanse in the middle of the desert....
Partnership is first step in President Gabriel Boric’s national strategy for battery metal
...The company is in talks with state-owned copper mining group Codelco about renegotiating its agreement for the world’s best lithium resources in the Salar de Atacama, which is set to expire in 2030....
...rise of the beer industry in Mexico, which is now the world’s largest exporter of the drink, shipping out 42mn hectolitres in 2021, up 11.5 per cent compared to the year before, according to Cerveceros de...
Leftwing leader Gabriel Boric also promises to impose stricter environmental rules
US lender drops effort to sell Mexican retail bank it bought in 2001
...Bank of England deputy governor David Ramsden, Reserve Bank of Australia governor Michele Bullock, Bank of Spain governor Pablo Hernández de Cos and People’s Bank of China governor Pan Gongsheng speak at...
Deal could value unit at between $6bn and $8bn, below analysts’ expectations
Companies and investors in the region are abandoning its stock markets
Billionaire Ricardo Salinas expresses interest in acquiring division as US bank shrinks international consumer business
...There, Sociedad Química y Minera and Albemarle produce a third of the global lithium supply from hypersaline “brine” waters under the Salar’s salty crust....
...SQM, whose full name is Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile, produces lithium by pumping brine from beneath the Atacama and concentrating it through evaporation in pools under the desert sun....
Investors take heart after Beijing says buyer subsidies will not be cut further
...An environmental court in Antofagasta late last week upheld a complaint made by local communities about the use of water by Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM) in the Atacama Desert....
...CV Born January 1955, Mexico CityTotal pay Not disclosed Education 1973-77 Business administration, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México 1979-81 Finance, HEC Paris School of Management 1981-82 Masters...
Campaign has been praised and criticised for confronting Trump’s anti-Mexico rhetoric
...“There is a consensus that the market will continue with a more than healthy growth,” Mr de Solminihac said....
...Patricio de Solminihac, 63, will be replaced by Ricardo Ramos Rodríguez, the current chief financial officer, in January, the Santiago-based company said....
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