Estudios Atacameños Arqueología y antropología surandinas,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
70, P. e6108 - e6108
Published: Nov. 25, 2024
Lithium
mining
has
engaged
in
different
types
of
relations
with
Indigenous
communities
since
arriving
the
Salar
de
Atacama
between
1980s
and
1990s.
One
such
strategy,
Corporate
Social
Responsibility
(CSR),
was
deployed
several
regions
worldwide
1990s
as
a
joint
effort
by
industry
to
improve
its
image
focus
on
episteme
‘sustainable
mining.’
This
research
looks
at
Ayllu
Wine
Toconao
Harvest
Festival,
organized
winemakers’
cooperative
SQM,
analyze
CSR
relation
concepts
extractivism
ritual.
On
basis
qualitative
using
ethnographies,
interviews,
press
archive
reviews
secondary
sources,
this
paper
concludes
that,
midst
current
lithium
boom,
Festival
is,
spatial
temporal
terms,
SQM
governability
strategy
that
produces
tension
community.
Behind
festivity,
discourse
iconography
‘responsible
mining’
lies
booming
extractivist
production.
Next Sustainability,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
3, P. 100032 - 100032
Published: Jan. 1, 2024
The
recycling
of
Lithium-ion
batteries
(LIBs)
waste
is
recognized
as
a
viable
solution
for
alleviating
the
pressure
on
natural
resources
caused
by
increasing
demand
materials
used
in
LIBs
production
and
disposal
these
hazardous
wastes
landfills.
Life
Cycle
Assessment
(LCA)
has
been
widely
employed
to
evaluate
environmental
impacts
associated
with
recycling.
However,
comprehensive
synthesis
lessons
learned
from
assessments,
including
methodological
choices,
findings,
implications,
lacking
literature.
Therefore,
this
study
aims
summarize
available
knowledge
application
LCA
This
uses
systematic
literature
review
method
combination
structured
content
analysis
identify
analyze
64
peer-reviewed
studies
key
findings
reveal
significant
variations
potential
impact
results
divergent
regarding
preference
among
processes
(hydrometallurgical,
pyrometallurgical,
direct
recycling,
bioleaching).
These
discrepancies
arise
different
assumptions
choices
LCA,
system
boundaries,
inputs,
inclusion
or
exclusion
specific
stages,
unit
process
flows,
use
avoided
products,
functional
units,
assessment
methods,
secondary
data
due
lack
primary
data,
especially
an
industrial
scale.
While
Climate
Change
category
receives
considerable
attention,
other
categories
are
often
neglected,
making
it
challenging
establish
particular
technology.
For
bioleaching
technologies
assessments
all
categories.
Electricity
consumption
chemical
inputs
identified
hotspots
options.
To
enhance
sustainability
additional
that
focus
collecting
particularly
collection,
pretreatment,
final
stages
recommended.
improve
transparency
reproducibility
future
studies,
article
provides
recommendations
research
agenda
conducting
field
The Extractive Industries and Society,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
17, P. 101376 - 101376
Published: Nov. 30, 2023
It
is
now
broadly
accepted
that
lithium
needed
to
power
the
energy
transition
and
address
climate
change,
or,
simply
stated,
"we
need
save
planet."
And
yet,
we
are
faced
with
an
ethical
dilemma.
While
technologies
may
allow
us
slow
change
perhaps
offer
opportunities
for
lithium-rich
countries
like
Bolivia,
extraction
has
socio-environmental
consequences
at
local
level.
How
can
exploit
planet
it?
Rather
than
seeking
resolve
this
apparent
double-bind,
propose
stay
it
through
exploration
of
narratives
around
transition.
We
begin
our
questioning
a
focus
on
ethics
–
what
should
do?
then
approach
dilemma
two
ethnographic
vignettes,
related
Bolivia's
Salar
de
Uyuni.
Our
allows
reflect
scales
subjects
invoked
in
dilemma,
interrogate
homogenizing
"we"
positions
implicit
pervasive
narratives.
The
article
ends
reflection
diversity
as
differently-situated
but
interrelated
people
distinct
projects
do.
Heliyon,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
11(4), P. e42523 - e42523
Published: Feb. 1, 2025
This
study
estimates
water
consumption
in
two
lithium
mines
(Olaroz
and
Fénix)
that
use
different
extraction
technologies
Argentina's
salt
flats.
Based
on
Environmental
Impact
Reports
(EIRs),
we
assess
the
footprint
(WF)
brine
(BC)
both
mines.
To
best
of
our
knowledge,
this
is
first
to
estimate
WF
BC
for
provides
data
better
understand
its
implications
local
ecosystems
communities.
We
also
contextualize
freshwater
projects
by
estimating
blue
intensity
(WIblue)
population
equivalent
(PE),
namely
number
inhabitants
would
consume
an
volume
water.
Total
was
51.0
135.5
m3/ton
carbonate
(Li2CO3)
Olaroz
Fénix,
respectively.
Per
unit
product,
2.7
times
higher
Fénix
but
Olaroz.
WIblue
indicates
that,
while
had
a
WFblue,
impact
availability
moderate
due
greater
availability.
WFblue
32,238
141,047
their
nearest
towns
(Susques
Antofagasta
de
la
Sierra,
respectively,
with
current
less
than
2,100
inhabitants).
Our
findings
underscore
mining
can
have
important
impacts
vary
significantly
geographic
context.
EIRs
provide
useful
basis
BC,
though
certain
limitations
challenges
persist,
particularly
regarding
incomplete
or
insufficiently
detailed
data.
Bulletin of Latin American Research,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: May 8, 2025
The
feature
documentary
En
el
nombre
del
litio
(
In
the
Name
of
Lithium
,
2021),
directed
by
Argentine
filmmakers
Tian
Cartier
and
Martin
Longo,
portrays
resistance
Kolla
Atakama
Indigenous
communities
against
lithium
mining
in
northwest
Argentina.
film
evaluates
project
through
a
Pachacentric
ethical
lens,
serving
as
an
example
what
this
article
defines
cosmocentric
cinema
.
It
exposes
enterprise
form
ecosocial
torture
which
can
lead
to
destruction
salt
flats,
symbolically
resulting
‘decapitation’
Mother
Salt
