Lithium Policy Announced. Part 1 of 217 Jun 2023 21:37
The following has a link that takes you to the policy PDF. OK if you are fluent Chilean Spanish.
HTTPS://www.northernminer.com/news/chile-offers-lithium-policy-details-to-tender-permits-in-first-half-of-2024/1003856039/
👆This has the link to the policy PDF (in Chilean Spanish). I am currently sifting through it with the help of google translate..and a glass of (appropriately Chilean Sauvignon). BW RR.
From p10-11...However,it is not clear that this increased supply will be enough to cover the rise in demand, with which, although it is expected that the price does not continue to grow with the same magnitude
than it has in recent years, the price will continuereflecting the strategic value of this mineral.
Chile's position as one of the main producers worldwide opens the opportunity
to advance in technological development upstream in production, with new techniques
extraction (such as for example the extraction direct brine or DLE/R for its acronym in English)
accompanied by sustainable reinjection methods, that ensure the least socio-environmental impact
possible in the territories. These technologies are being developed and tested in various sites,
but have not been fully implemented in industrial form. Promoting them is important for a
environmentally sustainable production, so that it is a requirement to implement them in existing tasks
and an input standard for new projects. Such technologies not only open up the opportunity to
transform Chile into a space for innovation and technological development in the production of lithium,
but also imply the possibility of increasing current production levels without thereby
negatively impact the environment. For it, baselines of the salt flats are required, as well as a
rigorous monitoring and follow-up on the effects of its implementation, in particular on reinjection
and its biogeochemical effects In this development, the State, which has the rights
exclusives on lithium, can play a role not only in terms of regulations and environmental requirements,
but also in the development and piloting of technologies
11National Lithium Strategy-For Chile and its People and in the generation of basic knowledge (models
hydrogeological, for example) that allows to evaluate correctly the performance of these new
extraction modalities. Complementary to the above, the opportunities in
development of knowledge and technology, together with the search for productive chains
and added value associated with this industry offer the possibility of generating a scientific-technological-industrial ecosystem.
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