Chile to loosen major miners’ grip on idle land

The American Exploration & Mining Association was joined by a coalition in filing a challenge last Friday in the Wyoming district court.

Chile's financial regulator had allowed a planned lithium joint venture between SQM and Codelco to proceed without a vote by SQM shareholders.

There are some 10,000 mining claims in Grassy Narrows’s interim area of interest for over more than 2,850 sq. km in the province’s far northwest.

Portugal already has the largest copper mine in the European Union, operated by Lundin Mining.