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Chile's State miner Codelco has a sense of "urgency" to reach an agreement with lithium miner SQM this year for a new state-controlled public-private partnership, Chairman Maximo Pacheco said Wednesday. "There's a sense of urgency to reach a good agreement that allows Chile to become a leader in lithium production," Pacheco said at a press conference after meeting with Chile's state development agency, which currently issues lithium contracts.

Chile's National Copper Corporation (Codelco) was appointed today to lead the negotiation process for future lithium contracts in the Salar de Atacama, the largest salt deposit in the South American country, as part of the national strategy for exploration and exploitation of the raw material.

Chilean miner Codelco has a sense of urgency to reach an agreement with lithium miner SQM (SQM) this year for a new state-controlled public-private partnership, Chairman Maximo Pacheco said.

State-owned copper giant Codelco has created two subsidiaries to further its expansion into lithium, a metal Chile has identified as essential not only for the global energy transition but for its own future development

Chiles move to take control of key lithium projects has mining executives worried about the lithium producers attractiveness. Read on.

Codelco launches two new subsidiaries to focus on lithium business after the government announced to increase state control on the metal.

Chilean State miner Codelco, the world's largest copper producer, said on Friday it had created two subsidiaries to run a newly mandated lithium business amid a government plan to increase state control over the industry. The government instructed Codelco in April to begin talks with companies running lithium mining operations in Chile's Atacama salt flats as part of a new lithium strategy that will see the state take majority stakes in all "strategic" pro...

By Maria M. Mur Santiago, May 22 (EFE).- Chilean Mining Minister Marcela Hernando said in an interview with EFE that the national lithium strategy recently announced by the government does not seek to nationalize the mineral – since “it has been (nationalized) since the (1973-1990) dictatorship” – and that the aim, apart from enabling Chile …

Chile's National Copper Corporation (Codelco) today presented two new companies created to explore and exploit lithium in the Andean country, which will

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