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Chile, the country endowed with most lithium reserves and home to SQM, the second largest global lithium producer, is keen to partner with India on tapping into the lithium value chain. This includes potentially extending technical expertise in exploiting the newly established “inferred” lithium resources of 5.9 million tonnes in Salal-Haimana area of Reasi district in Jammu and Kashmir. “We are open (to it) if the Indian Government were to initiate anything formally,” Alex Wetzig, Secretary General, Chile’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs told The Indian Express. He had held meetings with counterparts in the Ministry of Commerce and the MEA...
