In one of the world’s driest deserts, the battle for water is heating up. Mining companies sifting northern Chile’s Atacama Desert for copper, lithium, and other minerals are increasingly finding…
BHP’s (NYSE: BHP; LON: BHP) Escondida copper mine in Chile, the world’s largest, will stop drawing fresh water from the Atacama salt flat, using instead desalinated water brought from its…
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