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Chile lithium tender turns political

Chile’s aim to stimulate lithium exploration via awarding new production quotas has sailed into a raft of issues at a time when demand is literally going off the charts for lithium-ion batteries, as smaller players call foul play.

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Lithium in Chile

The government of president Sebastian Piñera, which ends its term in March, qualified five of the eight applicants and opened their economic offers, in what has an air of having been a