[rmujica]

Wrong. Lithium in Chile was nationalized in the 1980s by Pinochet. Lithium extraction and processing has been granted to privates in long term contracts that will continue to be valid but will not be renewed, and new mines will be owned directly by the state.

[longemen3000]

"Fun" fact about that, it was nationalized because it is a material for use in atomic bombs, in the 70 and 80 there wasn't another use for large scale lithium mining, except for that