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Close ✕Salar de Atacama
A salt flat of roughly three thousand square kilometres in the Antofagasta Region of northern Chile, at about 2,300 metres altitude, holding brine with among the highest lithium…
-23.5, -68.3 · approximate · lithium brine extraction from the 1980s; production expanding through the 2000s–2020s
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- is originates in of Lithium (as breeding feedstock) — Brine pumped from beneath the Atacama salt flat and concentrated in solar evaporation ponds is one of the two principal world sources of lithium, alongside Australian hard-rock spodumene.
Mission history61 missions · 1959 → 2026 · 2 planned
1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld pending verification) · 865 unlocated · No relief basemap · marks drawn only from sourced coordinates