Requested if BMW and ABB confirmed curiosity within the Maricunga undertaking, Pacheco mentioned the conferences had broader goals to debate the European financial system and Chile-Europe relations.
Each corporations are conscious of the necessity for extra copper and lithium amid the worldwide shift to inexperienced power, he famous.
“(BMW) is confronting the problem of electrical automobiles, of how you can construct a sure competitiveness on this market, they usually know they want lithium,” Pacheco instructed reporters at an occasion in Santiago. He additionally famous that electrical automobiles require way more copper than gasoline-powered automobiles.
So far as ABB, he mentioned, “They’re residing via the challenges of a world that’s going to be increasingly electrical, and the problem of the place the copper will come from.”
Pacheco mentioned Codelco additionally plans to debate copper and lithium with the Saudi Arabia mining minister in Chile subsequent month.
(By Daina Beth Solomon and Fabian Cambero; Enhancing by David Gregorio)