Chile hopes SQM-Codelco deal to proceed as planned, Finance Minister says
Chile’s government indicated that SQM and Codelco will proceed with the signing of a binding lithium partnership by Friday’s self-imposed deadline even as the deal faces mounting headwinds. “We hope that the agreed deadlines will be met,” Finance Minister Mario Marcel, 64, said Thursday in an interview from New York. “Any agreement of this size does not end simply with the signing of a document. There’s a whole implementation process that continues.”