Chile
Chile’s unhappy success
Why are voters flocking to right and left-wing populists ahead of this year’s presidential election?
Sinkholes threaten luxury property in Chile's resort city
It was meant to be paradise on earth: a luxury apartment building standing just a few metres away from the beach with breathtaking views of the Pacific Ocean.
Aussie billionaire threatens to sink SQM's A$1.56 billion lithium deal
HANCOCK Prospecting, owned by Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart, threatened on Friday (Oct 27) to torpedo a deal by the world’s second biggest lithium chemicals maker, Chile’s SQM, for an Austr...
China’s Tsingshan to invest US$233.2 million in lithium: Chilean president
CHILEAN President Gabriel Boric said on Monday (Oct 16) that Chinese Tsingshan Holding Group will make lithium-related investments worth US$233.2 million in Chile.
How the far left paves the way for the far right
IN MAY 2021, Chileans elected a constitutional convention where the far left reigned supreme and the right had fewer than the one-third of the seats required to block controversial provisions. That co...
BHP taps Microsoft, AI, to improve recovery at top copper mine
BHP Group has teamed up with Microsoft to improve copper recovery from its Escondida mine in Chile, the world’s biggest copper mine, by using machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), it said...
Scientists discover ancient cemetery of flying reptiles in Chile's Atacama desert
[SANTIAGO] Scientists in Chile say they have unearthed a rare cemetery with well-preserved bones of ancient flying reptiles that roamed the Andean country's Atacama desert more than 100 million years ...
China tears up rule book in race to fix its energy crisis
As approaching winter threatens to ratchet up demand, authorities are taking extraordinary steps to intervene
Two unions end strike at world's largest copper producer
[SANTIAGO] Two of the three unions at Chile's state mining company Codelco, the largest producer of copper in the world, have ended strike action, the company said on Thursday.
Top copper nation calls for debate on how to best tap the boom
[SANTIAGO] Chile's government is calling for a broad discussion on what the top copper-producing nation wants to get out of mining, rather than rushing in to vote on a proposed new tax system.