Facility

SQM Salar del Carmen Lithium Chemical Plant

Primary-source record for SQM Salar del Carmen Lithium Chemical Plant. The qualifying line is modeled at the physical grain supported by the cited source, with lithium-chloride-intermediate as input and battery-grade-lithium-carbonate and battery-grade-lithium-hydroxide-monohydrate as output. Current state was rechecked for the Phase 2 launch-date sweep on 2026-08-18.

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Location: Salar del Carmen, Antofagasta, Chile

Lithium chemicals

SQM Salar del Carmen Lithium Chemical Plant qualifying line

Operating

Flexible lithium chemical complex producing lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide monohydrate

Material flow

Lithium Chloride Intermediate → Battery-Grade Lithium Carbonate, Battery-Grade Lithium Hydroxide Monohydrate

Capacity

210,000 metric-tonne-per-year · Product mass · Nameplate · as of Dec 31, 2025

Qualification

Commercial production · The cited primary source identifies the line output as battery grade or battery quality. · Dec 31, 2025

Sources

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · published Apr 1, 2026 · retrieved Aug 18, 2026 · archive unavailable: Wayback /web/2026/ redirect probe was throttled or transport-failed on 2026-08-19 (TypeError: fetch failed); no archive URL was asserted.