Facility

Sal de Vida Lithium Carbonate Project

Primary-source record for Sal de Vida Lithium Carbonate Project. The qualifying line is modeled at the physical grain supported by the cited source, with lithium-brine as input and battery-grade-lithium-carbonate as output. Current state was rechecked for the Phase 2 launch-date sweep on 2026-08-18.

Facts on this page last re-verified Aug 18, 2026 — the oldest verification date among its current claims. How we verify.

Location: Salar del Hombre Muerto, Catamarca, Argentina

Lithium chemicals

Sal de Vida Lithium Carbonate Project qualifying line

Operating

Brine concentration and conversion to battery-grade lithium carbonate

Material flow

Lithium-Bearing Brine → Battery-Grade Lithium Carbonate

Capacity

15,000 metric-tonne-per-year · Lithium carbonate equivalent · Nameplate · as of Jul 29, 2026

Qualification

Commercial production · The cited primary source identifies the line output as battery grade or battery quality. · Jul 29, 2026

Sources

Rio Tinto · published Jul 29, 2026 · retrieved Aug 18, 2026 · archive unavailable: Wayback /web/2026/ redirect probe returned HTTP 404 on 2026-08-19; no snapshot was verified.
Argentina Ministry of Economy, Secretariat of Mining · published Jun 1, 2025 · retrieved Aug 18, 2026 · archive