The Ministry of Mining accepted application from CODELCO to extend CEOL, page-97

Thanks Mate.
Reading the entire article it sound positive.
Extract again:

-And how are these strategic partners going to be chosen, will it be through a tender?
-We have focused on how to take advantage of or take advantage of salt flats that are not being explored or exploited and there we have to start exploration processes.

-But in the salt flats where there is a lithium cash cadastre, I mean Maricunga and Atacama?
-In the case of the Maricunga salar, it is Codelco who has assigned the special operating contract and there are a couple of other companies that have interests and are carrying out projects there. So in the specific case of Maricunga, we could not talk about any type of tender.

This means The New State Lithium Company will deal with LPI and Simco (perhaps?).

-Undersecretary when will the announcement be given?
-We do not yet have a definite date, but the announcement should be soon, as the Minister of Finance stated at the time, we have some expectation that it will happen during January, but there is no date yet.

-Who is going to give the announcement?
-That is another issue that has to be resolved at the time, the moment and who gives the announcement, the spokespersons will be defined in a timely manner.Reading the entire article it sound positive.