{"id":809,"date":"2024-01-18T05:57:34","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T05:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greatmining.com\/mining-news\/?p=809"},"modified":"2024-01-18T05:57:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T05:57:34","slug":"sqm-restarts-lithium-operations-in-chile-following-the-removal-of-roadblocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatmining.com\/mining-news\/sqm-restarts-lithium-operations-in-chile-following-the-removal-of-roadblocks\/","title":{"rendered":"SQM restarts lithium operations in Chile following the removal of roadblocks."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SQM, the world&#8217;s second-largest lithium supplier, is resuming operations in northern Chile following the clearance of roadblocks by local communities, as confirmed by a company representative on Monday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The removal of the final blockades, in place for nearly a week, allows the gradual return to normal operations. Community concerns arose over plans to increase lithium production at the Atacama salt flat under a new public-private development model. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite an agreement reached late Friday with the indigenous peoples council (CPA), some groups continued protesting over the weekend. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SQM-Codelco partnership is pivotal to Chile&#8217;s strategy amid increasing global demand for lithium, though recent developments impacted SQM&#8217;s shares negatively in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SQM, the world&#8217;s second-largest lithium supplier, is resuming operations in northern Chile following the clearance of roadblocks by local communities, as confirmed by a company representative on Monday. The removal of the final blockades, in place for nearly a week, allows the gradual return to normal operations. Community concerns arose over plans to increase lithium&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lithium-mining"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatmining.com\/mining-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatmining.com\/mining-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatmining.com\/mining-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatmining.com\/mining-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatmining.com\/mining-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatmining.com\/mining-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":811,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatmining.com\/mining-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions\/811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatmining.com\/mining-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatmining.com\/mining-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatmining.com\/mining-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatmining.com\/mining-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}