The objective of the program is to find and promote new technologies and innovations related to lithium. Selected entrepreneurs will receive $25,000.

Ospina is the founder of O Trade, a firm that works with mining companies to create regional development through community engagement.

Camimex joins 11 other mining associations around the world, the fifth in Latin America.

Vale will contribute an initial $1.1 million to the University, with a focus on decarbonization and the energy transition economy.

A new professorship will aim to strengthen the pipeline of skilled engineers to work in tailings management immediately after graduating.

The popular image of mining fails to give an accurate impression of a sector that increasingly finds itself at the cutting edge of engineering, science and technology.