Chile

THE BROAD VIEW

Chile’s unhappy success

Why are voters flocking to right and left-wing populists ahead of this year’s presidential election?

Intense rains that have lashed Chile in recent days caused a giant sinkhole to open underneath this high-end property in the resort city of Vina del Mar, prompting the evacuation of hundreds of residents.

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.

SQM’s scheme of arrangement deal for Azure requires 75 per cent of voting shareholders to back the deal, and already has implicit support of around 43 per cent.

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...

“The most important thing, is that we’re not limiting ourselves to just the extraction of lithium, but we’ll be creating value chains and transferring knowledge,” says Chilean Presidential candidate Gabriel Boric.

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.

Chilean president Gabriel Boric arriving at the South American Presidents' Summit at the Itamaraty Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, May 30, 2023.

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 estimates the world needs to double the amount of copper produced over the next 30 years to keep pace with the development of decarbonisation technology.

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

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
PERSPECTIVE

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

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

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.