The world's largest producer of iron ore shipped 80.3 million tons of the steel-making commodity in the quarter.
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.
The company said on Saturday that the forest fires were only a few kilometers from Bloom Lake.
