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Codelco's_contributions to_Treasury fell_60% from_2022 affected_by
lower copper prices https://www-latercera-com.translate.goog/pulso/noticia/aportes-de-codelco-al-fisco-cayeron-mas-de-60-en-2022-afectados-por-menores-precios-y-ventas-de-cobre/TA37YJ7TN5DYJMCSBS3L2SPP6M/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Dear Codelco, fire more men from your workforce and replace them with women from Anti-Mining Marcela Hernando's jiffy all-girl labor pool... that will solve everything for you.
The Doctor
Anti-Mining Marcela:_blah blah,_yada yada, no_NLP/NLC, Gabby_still
constipated holding the NLP/NLC papers up inside his pooper while endlessly sitting on the toilet... March is gone, March is shot.
https://www-reporteminero-cl.translate.goog/noticia/noticias/2023/03/ministra-hernando-anuncio-vienen-buenas-noticias-respecto-litio?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en
Reporting Live from Chile:
Bloonberg Reporter Karen Rodriquez: Mizz Marcela, once again through your sneaky slimy backroom browbeating lesbo manipulation of pussy-whipped Mommy's Boy Gabby Boric you have delayed any clarification of the new NLP/NLC program for March 2023. Is it you intention to continue squashing any further solidification of an intelligent NLP/NLC program in Chile at least through the summer of 2025 presidential campaigning in order to give yourself the most "open adjustable" position on postponing the lithium mining clarifications until you are president?
Anti-Mining Marcela: Si.
Bloonberg Reporter Karen Rodriquez: And what has happened to Willy Kracht who is Mommy's Boy Gabby Boric's best buddy from his college days?
Anti-Mining Marcela: Who is Willy Kracht?
Pres_Rodrigo Ceballos_resigns. Had_I been_president trying to_negotiate
endlessly with thesefocking numbskull thieving conniving extorting corrupt leftist/commie beaners in Chile I would have blown my brains out long before I could have resigned. Kudos to Rodrigo for lasting this long.
https://investingnews.com/aclara-announces-resignation-of-officer/
The Doctor
Tesla_in talks_with CATL,_on building_battery plant_in the_US
https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/3215488/tesla-talks-catl-chinas-leading-ev-battery-maker-building-plant-us?module=live&pgtype=homepage
Where in the hell is all the new lithium supply coming from for all these new lithium battery-making plants? Is somebody producing lithium ore out of thin air?
The Doctor
IT'S_ALIVE. IT'S_ALIVE! Maricunga_sperm brine_used to_create AI_Lithium
https://batteriesnews.com/ibc-demonstrates-highly-selective-high-yield-99-direct-lithium-extraction-brine-salar-de-maricunga-chile-using-direct-lithium-to-product-dlp-process/
Reporting Live from Chile:
Bloonberg Reporter Karen Rodriquez: Senor Crystalballs, DLP (ie something like DLE) AI (Artificially Intelligent) new baby lithium life has been created from Maricunga sperm brine! This is exactly the kind of low-contaminant lithium Elon Musk should be using to avoid any more 2016 model battery failures https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=171531714
Can you give us a sense of your overwhelming feelings tonight?
Crystalballs: I... errr... we... all ecstatically feel like Dr Frankenstein today... we have the "Power" of new baby lithium life right in our hands today. Would you like to see the "Power"?
Bloonberg Reporter Karen Rodriquez: No, Senor Crystalballs, I have seen the "Power" before... in fact my boyfriend ate a half dozen oysters last night and I saw the real "Power" in bed after midnight 6 times ergo the reason I am a totally whipped noodle today. What will you do with your Maricunga project on Friday when Mommy's Boy Gabby Boric reads the above article and comes crying to LPI to begin "cleaner lithium mining" immediately to create desperately needed new jobs in Chile in order for him to avoid impeachment and all the backlash brewing in the Chilean citizenry over Argentina making super big-money already on the Lithium Boom just 100 miles from Maricunga?
Crystalballs: I will say to Mommy's Boy Gabby Boric, repent for your past sins right here in Chile, accept Jesus into your heart and do the hokey pokey on TikTok dressed as Carmen Miranda if you want to get back into our good graces ala Albemarle https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=171552071 two days ago.
Bloonberg Reporter Karen Rodriquez: Touche.
Unemployment_rate reaches_8.4%. Mario_Marcel scrambling_to create_new
good-paying jobs https://vnexplorer-net.translate.goog/tasa-de-desempleo-llega-a-84-su-mayor-nivel-desde-septiembre-de-2021-s1154816.html?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp&_x_tr_hist=true
Mario Marcel highlights job creation amid rising unemployment https://www-latercera-com.translate.goog/pulso/noticia/marcel-destaca-la-creacion-de-puestos-de-trabajo-en-medio-del-alza-del-desempleo/WT5CINX5NZHKZEM6T6G5J2K5NA/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
And you can bet the farm that Minister of Finance Mario Marcel is trying his darnedest to create new lithium mining jobs. This guy might work at being Treasurer for a bunch sniveling snot-nosed whiny juvenile spoiled-brat leftist commies, but deep down inside Mario is a capitalist who completely understands free-enterprise 100%... don't kid yourself otherwise.
The Doctor
Welcome_back Jair_Bolsonaro. Best_wishes to_you.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/30/americas/jair-bolsonaro-returns-brazil-intl-hnk/index.html
The Doctor
Horseface_Marcela warming_up the_crowd for_Boric NLP_announcment
https://www-redimin-cl.translate.goog/hernando-destaca-ventajas-de-chile-sobre-bolivia-y-argentina-para-explotar-litio-y-adelanta-rol-de-corfo-enami-y-codelco/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
The NLP, it's coming... it's coming... it's coming... yesiree folks the NLP (National Lithium Policy) is coming... soon... soon-ish.
This simple routine policy statement which Mommy's Boy Gabby Boric assured us all he had in hand 95% written/formalized while campaigning for president in 2021 still isn't in the public's domain one year after Gabby has taken office, but Anti-Mining Marcela (who is now today newly punching down on Argentina & Bolivia to show how tough she will be as the president in 2026) says Mommy's Boy Gabby Boric is almost kinda' sorta' maybe ready to get off his deadass and bless us with his new wonderfully constructed NLP (National Lithium Policy) any day now which according to Horseface looks like it will still need a couple of more weeks after the announcement/publication for her to fully explain/implement.
Dear Gabby, write thefocking NLP in proper Whitey's English (which is the World's language of business) and avoid using the beaner long-winded wishy-washy limpdick lexicon you use to sugar-coat/blur/sandbag everything you say. Thanks.
The Doctor
Ambassador Juan_Gabriel Valdés_on lithium:_YES we_want USA&Canada
Chile's representative to the United States, Juan Gabriel Valdés, said that the strategic partners to exploit lithium in the country are Western economies such as the US and Canada. China on the other hand only belongs to the category of “trading partner”. The Foreign Ministry (see Alberto van Klaveren) supported the ambassador. https://www-ex--ante-cl.translate.goog/las-declaraciones-del-embajador-valdes-que-causaron-malestar-entre-diplomaticos-chinos/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
I guess this now officially explains the conundrum/roadblock as to why BYD didn't get the 80,000mt LCE export license for US$61,000,000 a year ago and why Tianqi is currently not getting their request approved (by FNE) to acquire lithium property in Chile outside/independent of the SQM/Corfo "machine". China is a lower caste trading partner (spit spit) for Chile and not a key more crucial/powerful Strategic Partner... that is apparently more a big difference than we previously first thought.
Dear China, for your new kick-in-the-nuts today from Chile's Ambassador Juan Gabriel Valdés we would suggest filling a rubber douche bag with ice cubes and sitting on it for an hour.
Nyah nyah, Mommy's Boy Gabby Boric finally comes out of the closet as sincerely wanting WESTERN countries to EXPLOIT Chile's lithium in future STRATEGIC lithium love-making relationships. Well, I guess we will take that as good news for today then.
The Doctor
Review,note,raise,request...boring. Marcela sleepwalking_through SONAMI
perfunctory meeting once more. Nothing clarified, nothing decided, nothing about lithium NLP/NLC, nothing changed, nothing passed up the chain of command to Boric, nothing updated, in one ear & out the other, blah-blah, everything postponed until mañana-mañana. Not a single Willy Kracht in sight of the conference room to give even a shred of credibility to the meeting. https://www.portalminero.com/wp/ministra-hernando-se-reunio-con-directivos-de-sonami/
And ta-ta. Anti-Mining Minister Marcela Hernando gallantly makes it through another drudge painintheass SONAMI photo-op meeting. In the background we hear a collective hurrah cheer for the "put-a-lesbo/dyke-to-work" champion Marcela Hernando as the cheer goes up from the 7 sign-holding lesbian/dykes picnicking outside the conference room window out on the lawn.
The Doctor
Conniving_vindictive Anti-Mining Marcela_kicks Willy_off all_lithium work
and puts him in charge of lighting fuses on dynamite sticks safety program https://www.portalminero.com/wp/subsecretario-de-mineria-lidera-en-tiltil-inicio-de-ciclo-2023-de-capacitaciones-en-produccion-segura/
Dear Willy, your old college buddy Mommy's Boy Gabby Boric has about as much pull in mining matters (especially lithium) as a limpdick dishrag. Any lesbian/dyke in this administration can walk right over him... and he will say "thank you mistress, abuse me some more... please".
The Doctor
Excellente!_Head stupido_Mexican beaner_throwing monkey-wrench into
whole mining industry in Mexico again. This is more good news for miners outside of Mexico from this leftist banana republic. https://www.mining.com/web/mexican-president-proposes-tougher-mining-laws-shorter-concessions/
Anti-Mining Marcela_finally realizes_all the_women she_is jam-packing
and stuffing into redundant "make work" mining jobs are running into a brick wall in that there is insufficient "permanence" (ie longevity) in these newly-created-out-of-thin-air jobs which she hopes to eventually parlay into lesbian/dyke "tit-for-tat" votes for her 2026 run at the presidency to replace wishy-washy limpdick Mommy's Boy Gabby Boric
The Secretary of State pointed out that, although there has been an increase in female participation in the industry, the biggest challenge is their permanence in the sector
Dear Anti-Mining Marcela, there are only so many finite number mining jobs in the mining industry which you are actively strangling to death. If you continue your extracurricular crusade to jam-pack more women into "make-work" mining jobs then eventually you are going to replace the well-experienced core mining workforce with too many inexperienced people and you will implode what used to be a dynamic money-making industry for Chile with excessive labor, excessive overhead, and no incentive to excel since you have backstopped all these women (ie potential voters for your 2026 presidential run) which will be the kiss of death for privateers on set self-funded budgets trying to compete with too-big-to-fail perpetually state-greased mining companies.
You need to get back to trying to actually run the mining industry in Chile which is your real job and fight to expand it... not off on some tangent playinggrabass being the Human Resources Manager for this leftist/commie government. Better yet, you should declare you are a total useless incompetent nitwit and surrender your position to Willy Kracht or even better... Juan Carlos Jobet.
The Doctor
Knock_knock. Who's_there? Sleeper._Sleeper who?_LPIma Sleeper.
Communist_Party lead_by Senator_Daniel Núñez_votes no_on Zelensky
addressing Chilean Congress April 7 via Zoom thereby getting several vigorous yummy belly rubs, mucho doggie treats and dozens of attaboys fromValdimirPutin in Russia https://www-ex--ante-cl.translate.goog/confidencial-zelenski-hablara-la-proxima-semana-por-zoom-ante-el-congreso-pese-a-rechazo-del-pc/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Dear Senator_Daniel Núñez, ifPutin should accidentally stray across the Bolivian border too far south in pursuit of reclaiming the Red Corridor for Bolivia and accidentally also take the SQM, Albemarle, Lithium Chile Inc and the LPI Maricunga lithium mines can we assume you will also vote "yes" in the new Congress to let your good buddy Russia keep those 4 mines?
The Doctor
UK_close to_reaching a_broad agreement_to join the_TPP11
https://vnexplorer-net.translate.goog/reino-unido-estaria-cerca-de-alcanzar-un-amplio-acuerdo-para-unirse-al-tpp11-s1127638.html?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp&_x_tr_hist=true
This agreement with the UK is good news for Chile... that is, if Chile ever decides it wants to sell its lithium to real wealthy Whiteys and make gobs of money hand over fist.
The Doctor
Chilean_Ambassador to_USA: we_want Uncle_Sam's money_but we have
no new clear intention or formal specific written plans (eg NLP or NLC) to send any more lithium to America... so gofockyourself Honkey gringo.
https://www-redimin-cl.translate.goog/alianza-estrategica-para-el-litio-embajador-juan-gabriel-valdes-dice-que-chile-quiere-acuerdos-con-occidente/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Do you read of any new plan to send lithium to America in this article? In fact, do you read of any new promising plans to mine any more lithium than already produced by Chile's two tightwad golden gooses Pinochet-era sweethearts SQM & Albemarle? I don't.
The Doctor
PS, Dear Uncle Sam, if I were you I would tell Chile togofockitself until they produce a lithium manifesto allowing privateers to mine lithium in this communist state.... until then you might as well buy Argentina's lithium or grovel on your red-white-blue belly in front of China to beg for lithium from the Chinese.
If_Argentina gets_a mini-FTA_on lithium_today, then_Boric will really_be
sinking deeper into his self-created crapper https://miningpress-com.translate.goog/nota/354266/el-litio-se-mete-entre-alberto-y-biden?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp and you know lithium will be the number one topic of discussion today between Alberto and Biden in Washington DC.
Dear Mommy's Boy Gabby Boric, you and Anti-Mining Minister Marcela Hernando have dug yourselves into a lonely hole so deep that it is doubtful you will ever get out before 2026 when the Republicans take over the wreckage of your presidency in the next election to repair Chile.
The Doctor
Why_lost Mommy's_Boy Gabby_Boric will_always be_a lost Mommy's_Boy
Gabby Boric
Axel Callís, political analyst: "President Boric's story does not fit, it does not add up"
https://www-ex--ante-cl.translate.goog/axel-callis-analista-politico-el-relato-del-presidente-boric-no-cuaja-no-cuadra/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
There is a lack of leadership, there is a lack of people who can understand each other over all the litter that is behind it.
¡Viva_el (Long_Live) Libertad_y Democracia_Grupo!
Republicans_look to_be in_charge during_Constitution Rewrite II
https://www-ex--ante-cl.translate.goog/el-pronostico-de-pepe-auth-para-las-elecciones-de-constituyentes-los-republicanos-se-situaran-por-lejos-como-el-primer-partido-de-chile/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
I am going to double-check but I think other than first Constitution Rewrite being voted down on September 4 and the Tax Reform bill being rejected on March 8 I think this Republican controlling majority news today for the Constitution Rewrite II convention is the 3rd best news event we have had in the last 14 months out of Chile .
The Doctor
Most_important announcement_fm Chile_in 3yrs_mightbe coming this_week
and remarkably hardly anyone is even covering it, there is just a brief blurb in Redimin,
Mario Marcel anticipates that the National Lithium Policy will be announced “in a matter of days”
https://www-redimin-cl.translate.goog/marcel-anticipa-que-politica-nacional-del-litio-se-anunciara-en-materia-de-dias/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Treasurer Minister of Finance Mario Marcel is already set to publish a key document for us junior lithium miners at the end of April for calculating structural lithium mining income https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=171537007 which is monumental, but now it would appear he is also going to handle issuance of the NLP (National Lithium Policy) charter/proclamation. If the new charter/proclamation actually has "meaty" details in it, then this could finally be the game changer everyone was/is looking to have solidified under this wishy-washy limpdick mañana-mañana Mommy's Boy Gabby Boric administration already one year old and without a single political victory under its juvenile belt barely holding Gabby's pants up.
The Doctor
Boric_&Tohá losing_support of_Carabineros. Shouts_of "Get_out Boric!"
https://www-cnnchile-com.translate.goog/pais/fuera-boric-ceremonia-despedida-carabinera_20230328/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Dear Mommy's Boy Gabby Boric, you think you had problems before? Ha, you're going to have real problems real soon when the Carabineros are telling you togofockyourself for the next 3 years.
The Doctor
PS, here's a tip.. in the future don't issue presidential pardons to criminals who injure or kill Carabineros. Use this tip for what it is worth.
Hey_big boy_Tianqi, looking_for a_good time?_Call us_@562-2380-6000
We will show you a good time and treat you like a real Whitey here in Chile... not like some yellow "throw away" coolie the way this current government treats you https://www-redimin-cl.translate.goog/tianqi-insiste-en-pedir-alzar-sus-restricciones-en-sqm-confiamos-que-el-gobierno-de-chile-y-la-fne-trataran-a-todos-los-inversionistas-internacionales-de-manera-justa/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
On the surface it looks like you through the National Economic Prosecutor's Office (FNE) are simply trying to gain your long overdue "equal status" within SQM, but we beaners here in Maricunga see your true intentions/desires... you want to create for yourself a free-standing independent Tianqi (minus the stifling yoke of SQM you suffer) capable of "branching out" into new greener-pastures and/or lithiumpussies. We see you, we hear you, we feel you... So call us at +562 2380 6000 for a real good time. We'll help you "branch up"... way up if you know what I mean.
The Doctor
PS, and if I were you... I would call before Albemarle calls us again.
Ford:_it's lithium_& nickel...let's not_kid ourselves_any longer,_it's always
been lithium lithium & nickel https://insideevs.com/news/659397/ford-ceo-says-batteries-are-main-constraint-to-ev-transition/
We_(Aclara) are_the saviors_of all_mankind... plus_you will_love
our new improved hemorrhoid jelly.
ACLARA exposed virtues of rare earths in 1st. International Lanthanide Symposium
https://www-guiaminera-cl.translate.goog/aclara-expuso-virtudes-de-tierras-raras-en-1er-simposio-internacional-de-lantanidos/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
The Doctor
LG_increases Arizona_battery plant_size from_US$1.3B up_to US$5.5B
https://insideevs.com/news/659033/lges-battery-plant-arizona-revision-bigger/
The amount of money being shoveled full-force into the lithium battery-making industry now just boggles the mind.
The Doctor
Lithium_explorer Liontown_rejects US$3.7_billion buyout_from Albemarle
... geez, what a pitiful insult to Liontown from Albemarle.
https://www.mining.com/web/battery-metals-producer-liontown-rejects-3-7-billion-proposal-from-albemarle/
Dear Albemarle, we in Maricunga will reject you also... unless you repent for your past sins right here in Chile, accept Jesus into your heart and do the hokey pokey on Tiktok dressed as Carmen Miranda.
So don't come pestering us in Maricunga later in the week as "your rebound second choice" until we see your new hokey pokey video on TikTok.
Sincerely,
The Doctor
What_if we_(Chile) take_advantage of_the United States_IRA for_lithium?
https://www-ex--ante-cl.translate.goog/y-si-aprovechamos-el-ira-de-estados-unidos-para-el-litio-por-jose-luis-barroilhet/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Who_runs clothing_dumps in_Red Corridor_near lithium_mines? Bolivians
https://eldeber.com.bo/pais/las-mafias-bolivianas-de-la-ropa-usada-contaminan-el-medioambiente-en-el-norte-de-chile_319206
The Bolivians are already just down the road from us. They are running the huge clothing junkyards spreading across the Atacama so quickly... pushing Chileans out.
The Doctor
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Bolivian used clothing mafias pollute the environment in northern Chile
The used clothing business in Iquique is dominated by Bolivians. The groups select the garments and those that are not suitable for offers are sent to an illegal dump located in the Atacama desert.
March 27, 2023, 4:00 AM
It is an ecological disaster in the middle of the Atacama desert. They are piles of used clothes that are in the hot sands and that are causing a strong environmental impact. The used clothing business in northern Chile is dominated by Bolivian groups and part of that trade is selecting the best clothing to arrive in the country. What does not work or is not liked, they throw it away.
In the Alto Hospicio commune, very close to the city of Iquique, there is a lot of discomfort because the remains of used clothing have become a headache. There are lots and lots of used clothing that fills the Atacama desert and that with the passage of time becomes material that affects the environment. In Iquique, this medium was able to verify that Bolivian groups are the ones that dominate the used clothing business, a trade that competes with that of undocumented cars.
The port of Iquique receives approximately 51,000 tons of used clothing per year. Of that figure, 20% ends up in the Atacama desert as garbage. In this place you can find clothes of all kinds and for all ages. There are tears, some with damage and others that are useless for dressing. There are also shoes in good condition and others totally broken. You can also see purses, backpacks and even wallets. Everything is in piles and waiting for someone to select what is served or it may simply be burned.
At that point, Venezuelan migrants were seen collecting what they serve, but many times they were found by police authorities and later deported.
The presidential delegate of the Tarapacá region, Daniel Quinteros, told EL DEBER that the issue of used clothing dumps in the Alto Hospicio commune harms the environment and that a regulation is being worked on to try to stop this phenomenon.
“It is an issue that worries us, it was even a concern at the international level. On this issue of used clothing that ends up in illegal landfills, we have a work group that sees only this point and we have carried out a series of inspections to somehow contain this situation (...) Used clothing that cannot be used In no way should it have control, both at the entrance and improve the regulations to generate higher barriers to the entry of products that will not be used in the national market and that end up in the trash," Quinteros said.
They classify clothes into different levels
The used clothing that arrives at the port of Iquique is classified by different levels. The first is the one that most attracts Bolivian gangs and that are sent to the country immediately. Something similar happens with the second and third, but they are already offered at a lower cost. However, there are other selections that are not taken into account and it is these garments that go to illegal dumps.
In this way, the Atacama desert becomes a kind of wardrobe of desired garments, of different sizes and dream brands. It is a huge clandestine dump of clothing that is bought, worn, and thrown away in the United States, Europe, and Asia. They are colorful hills that rise in the desolate landscape.
The excessive and fleeting consumption of clothing, with chains capable of releasing more than 50 seasons of new products per year, has caused textile waste to grow exponentially in the world, which takes about 200 years to disintegrate.
Clothes made in China or Bangladesh arrive in Iquique and were bought in Berlin or Los Angeles before being discarded. At least 25,000 tons end up as garbage hidden in the desert in the Alto Hospicio area, in northern Chile, one of the final destinations for “second-hand” clothing or from past seasons from fast-fashion chains.
Chile is the first importer of used clothing in Latin America. For nearly 40 years there has been a solid trade in "American clothing" in stores throughout the country, which are supplied with bundles purchased by free zones from the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia.
The Bolivian hand entered this business years ago. There are gangs that trade in these garments, but also dispose of them in the sands of the Atacama.
Alicia (fictitious name) awaits her cargo in the free zone of Iquique. She says that she cannot open the “fardos” (large plastic bags) to select what she arrived. "It's luck. Sometimes good clothes come, but sometimes there are clothes that can no longer be sold and that is thrown away, ”said Alicia. The Bolivian merchant refers to the Atacama desert.
Russia's_Rosatom Uranium One_still plugging_away on_lithium in_Bolivia
update follows: https://eldeber.com.bo/te-puede-interesar/las-soluciones-de-uranium-one-group-para-la-industrializacion-del-litio-en-bolivia_319110
See English translation below.
Quote from the referenced article:
ROSATOM has more than 80 years of experience in the refining and extraction of "white gold". Today, the company is building a complete technological chain in Russia, from lithium extraction to batteries and electric cars.
The Doctor
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Uranium One Group solutions for the industrialization of lithium in Bolivia
The advantage of Uranium One's technology is the use of a "sorbent" that allows selective extraction of lithium from brine.
March 26, 2023, 8:00 AM
"The time for the industrialization of lithium is today," the president of Yacimientos de Litio Bolivianos (YLB), Carlos Ramos, has pointed out on repeated occasions. Bolivia seeks to take advantage of the favorable international context for this resource, which is key in the global energy transition.
To do this, YLB launched in April 2021 an international call for companies that want to associate and develop the vast reserves of 'white gold' that this country has, following the guidelines of the Bolivian sovereign model.
One of these companies is Uranium One Group (U1G), a subsidiary of the Russian state corporation Rosatom, in charge of carrying out uranium and basic and rare metal extraction projects outside of Russia. Uranium One Group participated in the international call, presenting proposals for the direct extraction of lithium (EDL) from brines in the Uyuni, Coipasa and Pastos Grandes salt flats.
During the technical phase of the evaluation, the participating companies obtained brine samples from each of the Bolivian salt flats. They carried out pilot tests and presented technical reports.
During this phase, from February to May 2022, Uranium One Group tested 12 tons of brine using Russian sorption technology for lithium extraction. The results were successful: highly competitive and efficient, with a recovery rate of over 95%.
The advantage of Uranium One's technology is the use of a "sorbent" that allows selective extraction of lithium from brine. This supposes an advantage in some key parameters on the results of other participants.
Thus, the Uranium One Group technology makes it possible to create a production facility with good economic results and, at the same time, with minimal impact on the environment.
The Russian company has installed a mobile unit at the YLB Materials and Resources Research Center to demonstrate how the principle of direct sorption extraction works and the rapid production of lithium concentrate from hydro-mineral raw materials.
In addition, Uranium One Group plans to hire local staff for the project and will offer training places in Russian universities to Bolivian students who will participate in the future development of the project.
Cooperation with Bolivia
ROSATOM has more than 80 years of experience in the refining and extraction of "white gold". Today, the company is building a complete technological chain in Russia, from lithium extraction to batteries and electric cars.
Uranium One seeks to transfer this experience to Bolivia so that the country can not only extract lithium, but also develop high-tech products that can be sold in other countries.
It should be noted that Rosatom has been present in Bolivia since 2017, when construction began on the Nuclear Research and Technology Center (CNRT) in El Alto, commissioned by the Bolivian Atomic Energy Agency (ABEN).
The CNRT is the most important high-tech project in Bolivia, which includes a Preclinical Cyclotron Radio-pharmacological Complex (PCRC), unique in Latin America, for the production of radio-pharmaceuticals for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, and the first reactor for country's research facility, which allows for various scientific investigations and the production of radioisotopes. The project also includes a complex of laboratories and a multipurpose irradiation center (MRC) where agricultural products are processed to improve their food safety and medical products are sterilized.
At the beginning of March of this year, the PCRC began supplying fluorodeoxyglucose radiopharmaceuticals to the Bolivian network of nuclear medicine and radiotherapy centers. The president of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Luis Alberto Arce Catacora, attended the ceremony.
The CNRT will provide the Bolivian health system with its own production of a whole line of radio-pharmaceuticals for clinical trials involving more than 5,000 patients per year. In this way, Bolivian citizens will be able to receive timely and high-quality medical examinations with advanced nuclear medicine products, without having to travel abroad. In the future, the operation of the complex will make it possible to completely replace imports of radio-pharmaceuticals for the Bolivian network of nuclear medicine centers.
In this way, Rosatom has already established itself in Bolivia, as well as in other countries, as a socially responsible corporation that prioritizes the needs of the local population in its projects.
There_is no_new mines_coming on_line under Anti-Mining Marcela
but yet she continues to jam-pack more and more women nonstop into "make work jobs" in the mining business as 90-day wonder leftists daddy's girls civil engineering graduates or state-overpaid "political consultants" (to eventually beat all new mining projects into the crapper on trumped-up environmental, NIMBY or indians-being-inconvenienced bullsheet)
https://www.portalminero.com/wp/ministerio-de-mineria-extiende-proceso-de-postulacion-a-su-consejo-de-sociedad-civil/
I wish I had a high-paying job in the Ministry of Mining where I only worked 30 minutes day on solving real mining problems and then traveled around to free luncheons goosing women under the table the other 7.5 hours a day (ie after doing all my personal errands in a state-paid chauffeured car and a 2-hour afternoon siesta).
Bring back Juan Carlos Jobet as Minister of Mining... save this ministry before it goes completely down the crapper.
The Doctor
BHP: _Copper goooooood. __Lithium baaaaaaaad (spit_spit)
BHP eyes copper, nickel projects as it bypasses lithium March 8
https://www.mining.com/web/bhp-eyes-copper-nickel-projects-as-it-bypasses-lithium/
BHP presents growth plan with announcement of new mining projects US$10,000,000,000 March 27
https://www.portalminero.com/wp/escondida-bhp-presenta-plan-de-crecimiento-con-anuncio-de-nuevos-proyectos-mineros/
Hmmmm, do we possibly detect a chink in BHP's armor developing here?
The Doctor
With_Gabby Boric's_new fixes_to Chilean_pension system
Report calculates that with a new withdrawal from pension funds, 5.1 million people would be left with zero balance https://eldiariodesantiago-cl.translate.goog/archivo/7703?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Dear Mommy's boy Gabby Boric, someday you leftist/commies are going to realize that you can only fund your juicy welfare/handout programs as long as the centrists/right-wing capitalists still have money in their savings accounts at the banks... once that money runs out then you scammers, grifters, con-artists are SOL (sheet outta' luck)... unless you fire up the money-printing presses to print brand new unsupported bank notes... and then you do indeed become your worst nightmare, Venezuela II.
The Doctor
As_we've all_known for_10yrs, Boric_finally confirms_NLC will_include private
sector https://vnexplorer-net.translate.goog/presidente-boric-afirma-que-politica-nacional-del-litio-incluira-al-sector-privado-s1074417.html?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp&_x_tr_hist=true
Dear Mommy's Boy Gabby Boric, congratulations, you finally figured out what everybody (including nearly all the beaners in Latin America) with more that half a brain figured out over 10 years ago that the NLC (National Lithium Company) desperately needs the private sector as an active participant/partner in order to succeed. Hopefully next for you in less than 3 years before the 2026 presidential election you are also going to have another wonderful epiphany and realize that no Whitey/gringo investor is going to invest further in this two-bit banana republicshithole Chile unless he has a majority (greater than 51% ownership) in their proposed boots-on-the-ground lithium mining company... and that this leftist/commie government has to first put "some serious skin in the game" (ie green cash) investment in said "boots on the ground" lithium mining company for a percentage partnership (eg 30% to 40%). For Maricunga/LPI (where you do not already own our property like a landlord CORFO) that CAPEX cash will be $673,000,000 going up another $5,000,000 every month you delay.
Since you don't have an American education, you need to remember the capitalist's Golden Rule, "Money talks, andbullshit walks"... and if you leftist/commie pikers don't put up some money (read: CAPEX) very soon, then you will "be walking" and any increased lithium mining in Shile (note Shile =Shithole + Chile) will continue at a standstill.... that is, if the Bolivians/Venezuelans/Russians/Cubans don't take your portion of the lithium triangle away from you first.
The Doctor
Dear_Gabby, if_I were_you inside_the Red_Corridor I_would give_the USA
immediately enough good flat land at US$1 per year charge on a 30-year term to set up a fully functional US Air Force base, 10 Google uplink satellite dishes, 5 NASA (DARPA wink wink) uplink satellite dishes and 10 Starlink uplink satellite dishes... to start. That's what I would do.
The Doctor
There's_at least_3 top-quality_Chilean lithium_mines inside_Red Corridor
right off the top with maybe 4 if you include Lithium Chile Inc's Coipasa salar... and Bolivian President Luis Arce "really really" wants the Red Corridor returned to Bolivia now no matter what the International Court of Justice has previously ruled in the Hague on this Bolivian lawsuit https://www-ex--ante-cl.translate.goog/bolivia-la-haya-y-el-dia-de-la-marmota-por-paz-zarate/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
So let us not kid ourselves here, Bolivian President Luis Arce wants to ship lithium to Russia and he needs the Red Corridor to do it.
That is a problem.
How is that a problem you ask?
Well, when aggrieved parties do not adhere to internationally sanctioned judicial decisions... they many times resort to other more primitive nasty humankind methods to recover the property they feel rightly belongs to them.
Dear Mommy's Boy Gabby Boric, have you BTW "properly" assembled a team to defend us lithium mine-owning Chilean businesses spread across the remote Atacama range from aggrieved parties (esp foreign aggrieved parties) who may feel they need to employ primitive-type retribution in situations like this? I actually doubt that you have made those proper preparations but I do hope you will change your thinking soon on this new pressing matter.
The Doctor
Pulso_Survey Approval_of Mommy'sBoyGabbyBoric hits_low of_25.4%
https://www-cnnchile-com.translate.goog/pais/pulso-ciudadano-aprobacion-gabriel-boric-sexto-retiro_20230326/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Dear Mommy's Boy Gabby Boric, you have become an embarrassment to the leftists, the commies and all of the queers in Chile. You need to get off the pot and actually accomplish something in your foundering one year administration... anything would be a start since you really haven't accomplished anything since Sebastian Pinera left the office of President to you.
The Doctor
Dear_Eduardo Bitran,_are you_by chance_running for_2026 president also?
Keep_your friends_close. Keep_your enemies_closer. Keep Eduardo_Bitran
very very close (to us) after he joins Codelco as the newest board director on May 1, 2023. https://www.latercera.com/pulso/noticia/eduardo-bitran-es-complejo-politicamente-negociar-con-sqm-pero-siempre-debe-priorizarse-el-interes-general/DRDS6Z43UBDAZC774VOKREBOVE/
See below for English translation... and an eye-opening peek into our slugfest-ing future for the next 18 months until everyone backs off for the 2025 presidential campaigning season when all the candidates want to appear non-divisive and lovey-dovey cooperative.
Eduardo Bitran is just so cute and cuddly, he looks like a little happy fuzzy teddy bear... the kind you want to take home and snuggle up to when you go to sleep at night. Granted you might wake up the next morning missing an arm, a leg or your wiener, but you will have had a good fuzzy-wuzzy sleep the night before with him tucked warmly between your legs.
Eduardo Bitran definitely has his eye on us (LPI) in the Maricunga, but sadly for us he is going to be going full-guns full-bore to get a repressive balls-crushing junior-lithium-miner-stomping CEOL put into effect over us (LPI), Simbalik, SIMCO and adjacent neighbor SQM... that is his ultimate plan, and make no mistake about it.
The Doctor
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Eduardo Bitran: "It is politically complex to negotiate with SQM, but the general interest must always be prioritized".
By Víctor Cofré
He (Eduardo Bitran) is a reference in the lithium debate. He headed CORFO between 2014 and 2018 and led a negotiation with SQM and Albemarle that allowed the State to raise more than US$5 billion in a single year. Eduardo Bitran says that Chile must increase its production to take advantage of a price boom that may still last a few years and that to do so it must focus on the Atacama salt flat, without forgetting the other deposits. "If production doubles, lithium mining could permanently generate more than 1% of GDP as resources for the State," he predicts.
Industrial civil engineer Eduardo Bitran Colodro (65 years old) knows many things. Today he is an academic focused on innovation issues at the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, but he has studied and worked in many fields. He has been director of companies: ENAMI, Transelec, Salcobrand and has directed organizations such as the National Innovation Council and the Chile Foundation. A former PPD member, he was general manager of CORFO in the administration of Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle and Minister of Public Works in the first government of Michelle Bachelet. With a PhD in Economics from Boston University, he has studied the fishing sector, capital markets, electricity, concessions and mining.
His last relevant public position ended in 2018, with the second Bachelet government: he headed CORFO for four years. And so he knows quite a bit about lithium. In that position, Bitran renegotiated the contracts with SQM and Albemarle for the lease of the Atacama salt flats. Criticized at the time by some, this renegotiation is the basis for the extraordinary revenues of the Treasury in 2022. This has been recognized by authorities and private companies. The Minister of Mining spoke this week of "Bitran's contracts" to explain why the State achieved more than US$5 billion in a single year: the lithium boom triggered prices in 2022, something that was picked up by the re-negotiations of 2016 and 2017, which set variable lease fees that rose as the price skyrocketed. If the value exceeded US$10,000/mt of lithium carbonate, the royalty for CORFO jumped to 40%. And last year SQM sold at US$52,000/mt on average. In exchange, it increased the production quotas of both companies.
"We were not prophets of doom, we did not know that this was going to happen. We simply said: in the scenario [b[if this happens, the State has to participate significantly in the economic income that is generated", says Bitran modestly in what he believes will be his last interview to talk about lithium. In May he will take over as one of the nine directors of Codelco, appointed by Gabriel Boric, a position to which he applied via Alta Dirección Pública. And Codelco has a lithium project in the Maricunga salt flat.
Since the 1980s, he says, when he participated in the Center for Development Studies and studied the fishing industry, Bitran worked along a line that links almost everything he has done. "Since then, he began to work on an issue that was not easy: in the field of natural resources, when a country has advantages due to natural conditions, the exploitation of this activity generates economic income, a profit on normal capital, which is due to the characteristics of the natural resource. And to the extent that the resource is the property of all, the State has the right to appropriate a high proportion of the economic rent", he summarizes. Bitran declassifies in this interview unknown issues of the lithium negotiation in 2018 and gives his vision on the development of a resource that is currently exploited by only two companies, SQM and Albemarle, and that has pending a definition of national policy that the government has been working on for a year.
In 2018 what they estimated as proceeds from new contracts through 2030 was already met in 2022. What has changed?
We did expect prices to rise above US$10,000/mt, that is why we put a rate of 40% above that price. But to be very frank, we estimate that it would reach, in its best times, levels of US$20,000/mt. For one reason: economists calculate the long-term marginal cost of production of the marginal producer.
The marginal producer is the least efficient...
The least efficient. And we arrived at a value of US$18,000/mt, which would be the cost of the marginal producer. In the long term, the price should tend to those values. We did have a hypothesis that this was going to collect much more. But we never thought that in one year SQM could reach an average price of more than US$50,000/mt. There are other factors that explain the increase in revenues...
The increase in production...
Yes, the increase in production, from 80,000 tonnes to approximately 220,000 tonnes. And that has to do with the increase in the quota basically and the fact that the companies did what was reasonable to do: they invested in more capacity.
Lithium income for the Treasury surpassed Codelco in 2022. Is it Chile's new salary? (editorial, ie Cash cow?)
The first thing to point out is that lithium as a resource is abundant in the world and we are experiencing a transitory situation of excess demand and projects that take longer than estimated to produce, what happens is that the process of putting the resource into production, in a sustainable way, is complex. Even Chile has difficulties in the issue of sustainability. If you want to grow significantly, you have to change to direct extraction technology. What happened is that the United States, France, Germany, all countries set an expiration date for internal combustion cars and suddenly, in the West, the automakers realized that the critical issue was access to lithium. This generated a furor to buy lithium. And an imbalance is produced, with excess demand.
And that's going to disappear?
No. The boom will continue. The growth in demand is in the order of 30 to 40% per year! It doubles every three years, so the question...
... is at what point does supply connect with demand?
That is the point. All the predictions of when this or that project comes into production fell short and took much longer. But there is a worldwide effort to develop lithium. In Argentina, for example, without necessarily taking into account the environmental balance of the salt flats, almost all of it is by evaporation. Australia surpassed Chile with a very large growth...
Is Argentina a real threat?
Argentina is going to grow and surpass us if we do not do something. If we do nothing in the Salar de Atacama, basically, with the terms and production quotas that exist today, we are going to reach, in the best case scenario, a production of 300,000 tons per year by 2026. Today the world market is at 740 thousand tons per year, in 2026 it will be over 1.6 million. And Argentina will possibly pass us that year. But for me, the relevant issue is not whether Argentina is doing well and we are doing badly...
The relevant issue is Chile's position. did the country lose time from 2018 to date in developing the lithium industry?
Happily, what we did in 2017 and 2016 allowed us to grow from 80 thousand to more than 200 thousand tons. We could have developed other resources, Maricunga, the Siete Salares, Pedernales... We lost time, first, in the Institute of Clean Technologies. CORFO left it ready in 2017 with a US$200,000,000 budget: one of the main focuses of that institute was to pilot direct extraction technologies that would reduce water extraction. And what the next administration did was to ruin the process.
The second thing is to increase production. The quotas we set in 2016 and 2017 were intended to reach 300 thousand tons per year. There are investment commitments that are consistent with that quota and we assumed that it would be a matter for another government, two or three governments later, to resolve the issues going forward. Today there is a limit to what the companies can expand, because of the quotas. Albemarle has a 20-year term until 2043, but SQM has a term until 2030. And that is very short.
What should Chile do to increase its production?
Focus on the Atacama salt flat...
Why focus on the Atacama salt flat and not on the other salt flats?
It is necessary to do both things, but if one has the hypothesis that the mismatch of supply and demand is going to last four or five years, and one wants to benefit from these extraordinary rents (ref 40% rent to CORFO), which we are already enjoying in 2022, the fastest opportunities are in the Atacama salt flats. One could take the existing ponds, incorporate direct extraction technology (DLE) and start combining both technologies. Why haven't the companies that are there done it? Aren't they great innovators? Or are they only renters?
Is it because they have no incentive, because they run out of quota early? (ref CChEN LCE export quota licensing)
Indeed, there is a quota issue. There is a political risk, they have to negotiate with the State. Why the Atacama salt flats? Because if this windfall, ie this spiking price increase, is transitory, it is the only place where we can have a greater contribution with higher production. In the long term, US$18,000/mt, which is what we calculated as marginal cost, in the other salt flats, even with direct lithium extraction (DLE) technologies, we will probably continue to be low-cost producers and, therefore, there are also rents and opportunities to generate sustainable exploitation.
And in the Atacama salt flat, what would you suggest? Negotiate quota increases?
It is a complex issue. Politically complex because the "unmentionable", as someone told me at the time, is still there. We established a change and forced the termination of the shareholders' agreement with KOWA. But nobody knows who KOWA is. I don't. (editorial insert by The Doctor: Kowa Company Ltd established the Chilean-based affiliate company Kochi SA 1987, Kowa Company Ltd established the investment company Kochi SA in Chile. Kochi invested in SQM company in 1987, the Chilean government’s chemical mining corporation, and started the export of potassium nitrate to Japan https://www.kowa.co.jp/eng/history/detail/index.html ). Therefore, it is likely that although Julio Ponce cannot participate in the management, he is still the factotum (ie behind-the-scenes player) there. That is the same political pitfall that I had to face before, which is very complex. And as I am now going to assume a position as a director at Codelco, I will keep my opinion to myself as to what to do.
Would you be in favor of raising the 40% rate for extraordinary prices?
There are several ways to be able to participate to a greater extent in the income, one is to effectively make higher tranches (definition: one part or division of a larger unit, as of an asset pool or investment)...
Is it possible to go higher?
Yes, of course, if you put it on a high price, what is the problem? That will be triggered when there is an extraordinarily positive situation and everybody will win. The important thing is to calculate when it is still attractive for everyone.
You raised an option of partnering in the ownership of some companies in the Salar de Atacama.
If there is a political decision to create a National Lithium Company (NLC), one possible option is for the State to become a partner in the Salar de Atacama with some of the actors (ie junior lithium miners) and expand production with new technologies.
Politically it is difficult to negotiate with SQM?
It is politically complex to negotiate with SQM, but the general interest must always be prioritized.
Albemarle offered to partner on the property in 2014, why didn't you take that option?
At that time we said: What is the best way to participate in the revenues? We thought that with adequate royalties we would be able to participate in the economic income. And if we knew that politically to participate as a shareholder would have to go through Congress and that was a very complex task, because CORFO, by the law of 89, cannot participate as a shareholder in companies, then we were going to open a political debate that was going to stall this discussion for the whole period of government. Rockwood offered it 20% or 30%, in 2014, but for the sake of pragmatism we opted for royalties.
You’re coming to Codelco (in May 2023), did Codelco waste/lose valuable precious time by undervaluing the lithium business?
Codelco is doing explorations, but I am not going to refer to issues that Codelco has done or not done because in some way it would limit my role as an independent director. I am giving this interview before taking office because here there is a story and some lessons that, in some way, I want to transmit. And there are two major issues: the importance of continuing to make progress in improving the regulation of the link between business and politics, as there are still pending issues. Secondly, capturing rents when prices are very high is perfectly feasible and does not inhibit business development at all.
Is lithium going to replace copper?
In strengthening climate action, there are several resources that will be key. Electrification in the world will increase from 20% to 50% by the year 2050, and copper is the king.
I am referring to whether lithium will replace copper as income for the Chilean State?
I don't think that in the long term that will happen, but lithium can be very significant. Under current conditions, how much of that 2% of GDP in 2022 is long-term? It depends on what happens with production and price. There are important rents here and one could calculate it: perhaps we will reach up to 1% of GDP with production of more than 300,000 tons, but it will depend on the price. If you double production, which you could do with a policy in which the State and the private sector participate, addressing the challenges of sustainability and linkage with the communities, you could achieve that lithium mining permanently generates more than 1% of the GDP as a resource for the State. And that is very significant. And that can be as significant as copper mining. However, I hope that, given the progress of electrification in the world, copper will have that kind of phenomenon of prices soaring and rents will start to be very high at some point, and at that point hopefully we will have a better copper royalty law, so that the Chilean State will participate in the mining income in a significant way, without inhibiting investment.
What should a lithium policy have?
It should allow the development of salt flats in general, with well thought out CEOLs (Special Lithium Operating Contracts), with very strict environmental requirements. And with the possibility for the State to partner with private parties directly in certain developments. And there are also possibilities of added value. Here (in Chile) we are not going to make batteries: they gave as an example what Elon Musk was doing in Mexico. Please! Mexico sells 3 million cars, Musk is going to install himself next to where his factory is located, with a lower transportation cost, and he is going to take advantage of Mexico's cheap labor force. That is not the situation in Chile, so it is absurd to make movies about that, but there are other value-added products that we can develop.
Could developing four or five more salt flats be equivalent to the Atacama Salt Flat?
No, I doubt it. I have seen the numbers. The Atacama salt flat has 1,500 parts per million. Maricunga has between 700 to 1,000ppm and all the others have less. The Salar de Atacama is the jewel in the crown. We are not an empire or a kingdom, but that is what the lithium people called it, the Crown Jewel.