Facility

SQM-NovaAndino Salar de Atacama Lithium Recovery

Primary-source record for SQM-NovaAndino Salar de Atacama Lithium Recovery. The qualifying line is modeled at the physical grain supported by the cited source, with lithium-brine as input and lithium-chloride-intermediate 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 de Atacama, Antofagasta, Chile

Lithium recovery

SQM-NovaAndino Salar de Atacama Lithium Recovery qualifying line

Operating

Brine concentration and lithium-chloride solution production under the CORFO continuity contracts

Material flow

Lithium-Bearing Brine → Lithium Chloride Intermediate

Capacity

No capacity claim. Absence of a figure means no source publishes one.

Qualification

No qualification claim. Status does not imply qualified output.

Sources

Government of Chile · published Dec 29, 2025 · retrieved Aug 18, 2026 · archive unavailable: Wayback /web/2026/ redirect probe returned HTTP 404 on 2026-08-19; no snapshot was verified.