The world’s largest copper mine shows how intertwined the fortunes of Australia’s big miners are with what’s happening with ...

Ilya Epikhin of US-based consultancy Arthur D. Little explains how drought, demand and desalination are transforming water ...

When Eduardo Unda-Sanzana arrived in Chile’s Atacama Desert to teach astronomy ... from Aguas Blancas, an iodine mine. Escondida, the largest copper mine in the world, and Zaldívar, another ...

The Valley of Mars in the Atacama Desert ... remnants of the once-thriving 19th-century nitrate mining industry. The desert highways had a feeling of hauntedness, of something missing or hidden.

Wage negotiations at the Escondida copper mine run by BHP Group in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile ended without agreement, triggering a walkout on Tuesday at an operation that accounts for ...

The Canadian plan to evolve into global critical-metals player by opening one of the biggest copper mines in South America got off to an unlucky start. On Sept. 25, 1996, Frank Pickard, the ...

But even after the nitrate mines closed in the 1930s, the source of the massive mineral drifts remained a mystery. Glowing white as they bake on the sere desert surface, the Atacama nitrates are ...

ATACAMA DESERT, Chile — In the middle of the desert in northern Chile, massive pools of Caribbean blue water sit next to what appear to be snowdrifts. But this is a lithium mine. The pools are ...

The Atacama Desert of Chile is known as the Saudi Arabia of the electric vehicle industry. It is one of the largest lithium reserves in the world, with an estimated 8 million tons. The mines there ...

Wage negotiations at the Escondida copper mine run by BHP Group in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile ended without agreement, triggering a walkout on Tuesday at an operation that accounts for ...