Chile discusses IRA benefits with US to lure lithium investments

From miningweekly.com

Chile’s government is in talks with the Biden administration over benefits that US companies could access from the Inflation Reduction Act if they were to invest in the mineral-rich Andean nation. Authorities from Chile have held discussions with President Joe Biden himself as well as US Treasury Department and trade officials, Foreign Affairs Minister Alberto van Klaveren said in an interview. President Gabriel Boric’s government is looking to attract foreign capital to help it tap more of the world’s biggest lithium reserves and move further along the battery supply chain as the clean energy transition ... (full story)