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Chile lithium miner SQM says legal dispute could linger through 2018

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Chilean lithium and fertiliser producer Sociedad Quimica Y Minera (SQM) said on Thursday its ongoing legal dispute with Chilean authorities over royalty payments may not be resolved until the end of 2018. Talks to resolve the arbitration between SQM and Chilean government development agency Corfo ended at an impasse in October, leaving the fate of the company's lease in the Salar de Atacama, home to some of the world's most productive lithium deposits, in question.
 
 
 
 
 

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