Paulina Abramovich It’s as if the Earth has closed its eyes, some scientists say: the coronavirus pandemic has forced astronomers in northern Chile to shut down the world’s most powerful telescopes, running the risk of […]
SANTIAGO – Uranium One Group, a subsidiary of Russia’s state nuclear company Rosatom, may buy a controlling stake in a lithium project in Chile’s Atacama salt flat from Wealth Minerals Ltd, the Canada-listed company said […]
SANTIAGO – A space control center in the UK has been used to test-drive a prototype Mars rover thousands of miles away in Chile’s Atacama desert. Experts at the European Space Agency’s centre in Oxfordshire […]
SANTIAGO – Chilean environmental authorities have approved the construction of Latin America’s largest solar powered desalination plant that will be built in the Atacama Region and contemplates the use of photovoltaic energy. The initiative of […]
SANTIAGO – New Energy Metals Corp. (TSXV: ENRG) has entered into an option agreement to acquire a lithium project in the Atacama Salar district of Chile. The Canadian company says it can earn a 100% […]
Ross Brown/The Santiago Times Staff For a remarkably small country, Chile is a world on its own. Flaunting a truly diverse landscape ranging from the driest desert on Earth to southern glacial fields, and including […]
SANTIAGO – The Catholic University of Chile leads pioneering research worldwide in “two-sided” solar panels, a technology that generates 25% more energy than traditional devices and that would make the most of this natural resource. […]
SANTIAGO – Twelve people died in mining accidents during 2017, according to a study conducted by the National Geology and Mining Service (Sernageomin), which is the lowest figure in 18 years. Revealing a 33% decrease […]
SANTIAGO – A strike at state-owned Hernan Videla Lira smelter in northern Chile has halted operations, state mining development agency Enami said. The state-owned firm announced earlier this week that it had suspended operations at […]
NASA researchers spent a month on the site to test future Mars rover equipped with scientific instruments By Hira Bashir NASA has successfully completed the testing of its future Mars rover that will be used […]
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