SQM puts $1.5bn price on brine reduction plan

Chilean miner SQM says it will need $1.5 billion to execute a plan to cut its extraction of brine in half by 2030.SQM in 2020 committed to a 50% reduction in the brine it pumps to mine lithium in the vast Atacama salt flat in northern Chile. The company explained that its Salar Futuro plan will...