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Chile to Expand Atacama Lithium Mining with Focus on Sustainability and Indigenous Rights
Chile is planning to increase its lithium mining at the Atacama salt lake but the government is trying to mine the metal in a..
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The Atacama Desert is a desert plateau located on the Pacific coast of South America, in the north of Chile. Stretching over a 1,600-kilometre-long (1,000-mile) strip of land west of the Andes Mountains, it covers an area of 105,000 km2 (41,000 sq mi), which increases to 128,000 km2 (49,000 sq mi) if the barren lower slopes of the Andes are included.
Chile is planning to increase its lithium mining at the Atacama salt lake but the government is trying to mine the metal in a..