Mining Voices Forum will address challenges and opportunities of lithium mining in Chile, page-18

yesterday after the presentation, Willy the future undersecretary of mining put out this long article about lithium in the next government. : https://www.df.cl/noticias/empresas/energia/futuro-subsecretario-de-mineria-detalla-siete-tareas-sobre-el-litio-para/2022-03-03/203008.html

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What to do in the short term? The future authority defined seven tasks: continue advancing (or supporting) through Codelco in the exploration and exploitation of lithium in the Salar de Maricunga at the same time that the discussion for the creation of the national lithium company begins, reinstate the Committee of Governance of Salares, advancing in the creation of the Lithium Research Center or reinitiating initiatives such as the Institute of Clean Technologies.

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The next undersecretary also recognized that the conditions of the contracts that exist in the Salar de Atacama "are very interesting if one enforces them, I am thinking about the possibility of generating added value at the local level with the lithium produced in Chile." Along these lines, he added that the Maricunga case "shows how our weakness in terms of regulations caused us a problem." "

We as a State are responsible throughout history for having generated this problem and we continue to make decisions as a State that aim to make this type of problem more complex. And here I am talking about instruments such as a tender without a defined place. In other words, we could have two more even fighting for Maricunga," he said.