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Amid Atacama Water Crisis, Chile’s Zaldivar Mine Asks for Extra Time to Respond to Questions

Chilean copper miner Antofagasta Plc stated on Tuesday it might ask regulators for extra time to reply to questions about an environmental impact study for its Zaldivar mine, which pulls water from Chile’s lithium-rich Atacama salt flat. Chilean administrators in 2018 delayed their evaluation of Zaldivar’s environmental study amid rising worries over diminishing water supplies at the Atacama. Regulators recently…