{"id":323181,"date":"2025-05-23T11:35:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T11:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/rio-tinto-and-codelco-to-develop-lithium-mines-in-chile\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T11:35:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T11:35:03","slug":"rio-tinto-and-codelco-to-develop-lithium-mines-in-chile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/rio-tinto-and-codelco-to-develop-lithium-mines-in-chile\/","title":{"rendered":"Rio Tinto and Codelco to develop lithium mines in Chile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/05\/rio-tinto-and-codelco-to-develop-lithium-mines-in-chile.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"Image: Rio Tinto\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" \/><br \/>The British-Australian mining group Rio Tinto has announced a partnership with the Chilean state-owned mining company Codelco. The pair have signed binding agreements for a joint venture to develop a lithium project at the Maricunga Salt Flats in the Atacama Desert. <a href=https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2025\/05\/23\/rio-tinto-and-codelco-to-develop-lithium-mines-in-chile\/ target='_blank'>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/05\/rio-tinto-and-codelco-to-develop-lithium-mines-in-chile.jpg&#8221; class=&#8221;attachment-large size-large&#8221; alt=&#8221;Image: Rio Tinto&#8221; decoding=&#8221;async&#8221; fetchpriority=&#8221;high&#8221; loading=&#8221;eager&#8221; \/&gt;The British-Australian mining group Rio Tinto has announced a partnership with the Chilean state-owned mining company Codelco. The pair have signed binding agreements for a joint venture to develop a lithium project at the Maricunga Salt Flats in the Atacama Desert&#8230;. <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/rio-tinto-and-codelco-to-develop-lithium-mines-in-chile\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":323182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}