Ann: The new Chilean National Lithium Policy, page-78

Here is a quote from the second half of the interview with the CEO on CNN.


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the control structure will depend, it will depend on the situation that exists and it may well be that the private ones do, have control according to a public-private alliance, therefore that lets you see that at the end of the day this It will depend a lot on each individual and on each case, but you cannot imagine that in this case, in the mining company, it is white to enter the government or the state, rather, not the government, the State with property.

Why couldn't it be absolutely? We are absolutely open to comments regarding this strategy, some of the most pessimistic, perhaps in the sense that this could delay the opportunity or the use of the opportunity by the State of Chile. No, the timing is now high prices. In fact, we had a record last year, but the moment requires some urgency, some actors have said. private manages to respond to these times gives urgency to the development

We started talking about this strategy that was part of the president's campaign promises, we started more than a year ago. Because it's something positive, Not because I'm ready, not because there's nothing more to discuss, but it's because we finally moved from the ideas of statements in the media to action, today they began to see clear interlocutors with whom to talk until a week ago, they didn't know , of course, therefore, that is very positive today, we can already have a flat. There is a minimum floor and we can start moving forward and these vehicles that were defined today in the in while it will be the legislative process, the national lithium company that Sony are defined vehicles. You are going to be able to go talk to someone clearly and sit down with this company to say what I want to do and the company is going to know that it has a super clear mandate from the government to move forward, therefore from our point of view view that is quite We really believe that this is going to accelerate, if there is a doubt, the development of other projects and of the Salar de Atacama itself, incorporating more skills, incorporating innovation, which are quite necessary things, that is, they are not conditions that define the strategy that are negative in the eyes of investors in general terms, no, a priori at least not at all, that is, you, look, look at the conditions that defined the strategy on the one hand definitions of standards, technical environmental and social, for the development I'm going to use us as an We have practically seven years of development, we comply to the letter after having read the strategy, the truth is that we are very calm because it is the way in which we have developed our project We have an approved environmental evaluation. The communities are part and were part of the first day of our project. They have been the central axis since our project and therefore from the technical point of view, the technical impeccability of the project is clear and therefore from that point of view is pretty clear now from a control point of We are the owners of our mining properties in the case of maricunga we are owners of projects, we are owners of Yes, of course, but in stage 2 we are going to need, due to the nature of our second consequences, we are going to need a public alliance, it is something that we are going to talk about as this progresses, you and all the actors who want to participate effectively, Cristóbal, thank you for coming to the CNN studio to address this very bad topic, thank you very much for joining us at this time of the morning, news express is coming.

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