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SQM will at least double and could eventually quadruple lithium capacity, thanks to recent agreements between the company and the Chilean government. Ramping up production of the mineral, once mined mostly as the main ingredient in anti-schizophrenia drugs, will help meet seemingly insatiable ...

Following an unjustified closure of its accounts, Buda sued a total of ten banks, of which, Banco del Estado de Chile and Itau Corpbanca are now ordered to re-open Buda's account. Earlier in April 2018, Chilean crypto-exchanges said that government regulations are “killing the digital currency industry.

According to the Chilean government, some 8 million tons of plastic waste find its way into the oceans along the 4,300-km coastline every year, polluting coastal regions and harming marine species. In October last year, then President Michelle Bachelet signed a bill that prohibits the sale of single-use ...

Tianqi Lithium has been attempting to purchase a 32 per cent stake in the world's second-largest producer of the metal, but the Chilean government is concerned that this move would give China too much power over the global lithium market. China has criticized the Chilean filing of a petition to an antitrust ...

Chile's anti-monopoly court recently ordered two major Chilean banks to re-open the accounts of one of the country's largest cryptocurrency ... ban is coming from the Chilean government, as the country's Financial Stability Council, an organization with representatives from the country's central bank, the ...

Chile has said it will host the next meeting between the Colombian government and the country's last major rebel army. The announcement comes as Ecuador suspended its role as a mediator in the 14-month-old peace talks. Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno blamed ongoing violence by the National ...

A CHILEAN believed to be the world's oldest man has died aged 121 - leaving behind no living relatives. ... Chile's government, however, recognised his age, which would have made him nine years old than the current official oldest living man, 112-year-old Masazo Nonaka of Japan. He would also have ...

As in other Latin American countries in recent years, Chile's new government represented a swing to the right. In the region ... The OECD stated in 2018, “The gap between the wealthiest 10% and the poorest 10% in Chilean society is 65% higher than the OECD average.” We now turn to a few of Bachelet's ...

Jose Miguel Burgos, the head of Chile's fishing and aquaculture regulatory body, Sernapesca, has resigned at government's request for reasons that haven't been disclosed, Mundo Acuicola reported. Burgos, a veteran of the agency and veterinarian, confirmed the government's decision in a press release.

In just three years, Chile's domestic silver mine supply fell 10 million oz (Moz) from 50.1 Moz in 2014 to 40.4 Moz last year. Interestingly ... However, over the past few years, the World Silver Survey's silver production figures for several countries were higher than the data put out by the government sources.

The Chief Executive Officer of Chilean state copper company Codelco, Nelson Pizarro, confirmed rumours this weekend that he would stay on at the company's ... Chile's new government has pledged to overturn a dictatorship-era law that forces Codelco to transfers 10% of its export sales to the military.

Chile is pushing power companies to phase out coal plants following a government announcement earlier this year that the country wouldn't build coal-fired power plants unless they were equipped with carbon capture and storage (CCS). The decision, part of a wider national plan to transition to cleaner ...

Officials said the BrahMos Company is now registered with the government of Chile which will help in future sales in case negotiations culminate on a positive note. There is tremendous opportunity for Indian defence companies to participate in the modernisation of Chilean armed forces. Chiefs of the ...

Researchers have analyzed the DNA of this mummified specimen from Atacama region of Chile. (Bhattacharya S et al. ... According to the government agency Chilean National Monuments Council, the skeleton may have been illegally exhumed and smuggled out of the country. An investigation into the ...

As Carl Zimmer reports in the New York Times, the Chilean National Monuments Council, a government agency, has launched an investigation into the incident, saying the mummy's remains may have been acquired through grave robbing and illegal smuggling out of the country. Many of Chile's scientists ...

The Chilean National Monuments Council, a government agency, said in an email Tuesday that it had initiated an inquiry into whether the little girl's remains were illegally exhumed in 2003 and smuggled out of the country. The council has turned over its records to the Public Ministry of Chile in response to ...

They actually were clandestine ex-revolutionaries from Chile who had been on the run for more than 20 years — a lethal duo who, Chilean authorities say, ... garnered global headlines and was dubbed Vuelo de Justicia, or Flight of Justice, by militants — was a humiliation for Chile's still-fragile government.

China is Chile's main trade partner, and around 80 percent of Chile's exports to China come in the form of mining products such as copper ore. Chinese firms are rumored to be interested in buying 32 percent of Chile's largest private lithium company, SQM. However, the Chilean government is planning to ...

Cochrane pointed out that the previous restrictions on Chilean lithium exploitation and export has, until now, hindered wide-scale investment by the mining industry. This has allowed Lithium Chile to amass the largest landholding of lithium exploration properties outside of the Chilean government, and the ...

1 hour ago. Far-Right Ministers in Chile's New Government Placed in Sensitive Positions. Chile's newly inaugurated president Sebastian Pinera attempts to move the country to the right, but faces important constraints from social movements that vow to resist his government, explains Prof. Rene Rojas ...

This law has been used to target activists, particularly the Mapuche, Chile's Indigenous population of about 1.5 million people. The likely revamping of this law has worrisome implications for the Mapuche. Amnesty International's 2017-18 report accused the Chilean government of abusing the Anti-Terror ...

Albemarle Corporation said Tuesday that as expected, it has received approval from Chile's Economic Development Agency for an increase in the company's lithium quota. Albemarle may increase its lithium production in Chile to as much as 145,000 metric tons of lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) ...

During her latest four-year term, the government transformed Chile's electricity grid, weaning a nation poor in fossil fuels of its dependence on ... after the Chilean election last year, Mr. Trump expressed surprise when the president-elect pointed out that the United States had a trade surplus with Chile.

Water sources, pipelines and tanks suffered significant damage; government programmes supported their repair. As of early September 2017, irrigation systems had not yet been completely restored. Forestry jobs were highly affected. Chilean Red Cross (ChRC) assessments confirmed that the Cash ...

The new government in Chile has indicated that gay marriage is not among its priorities. Last August, President Michelle Bachelet introduced a bill to legalize gay marriage. Chile has recognized civil unions since 2015. However, Bachelet's four-year term as President ends this month, and the bill has not ...

Yet nearly 105,000 flocked here in the last year — the equivalent of 1 percent of Haiti's population — according to Chile's border police. And hundreds continue to arrive daily, fearful that they may no longer be welcomed when a new Chilean government takes office on March 11. The exodus is being driven ...

Will Chile's new government give the world's leading lithium producer a boost? FMC Corp. ... It should still receive a boost from the new government, just more indirectly. ... Lithium Americas (NYSE:LAC), which just listed on the NYSE, is working with the Chilean miner on a 50,000 MT per year project in.

“The Chilean government has really positioned itself as a global leader in ocean protection and conservation,” says Emily Owen, an officer with Pew Bertarelli Ocean Legacy Project, which has worked for over six years to help make these protected waters a reality. With the new parks, more than 40 percent ...

Chile's example can help reverse the sad fact that not a single country has successfully brought down obesity rates in the last three decades. JOHANNA RALSTON, LONDON. The writer is chief executive of the World Obesity Federation. To the Editor: Kudos to the Chilean government for taking the lead in ...

Although the Chilean government now owns and operates the parkland, Tompkins Conservation will continue to be involved. Spokane resident Denise Attwood traveled to Chile earlier this year with Nancy Schaub. Attwood, who has run a nonprofit working in Nepal for decades, said the scale and grandeur ...