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Salar del Hombre Muerto (Fenix) mine

Salar del Hombre Muerto (Fenix) mine, Argentina. Producing, brine, mining lithium.

Why Salar del Hombre Muerto (Fenix) is famous

Argentine lithium brine operation (Fenix), listed in Rio Tinto's 2025 report within the Arcadium Lithium assets.1,2

What kind of deposit

Lithium brine (salar)

Salar del Hombre Muerto (Fenix) today

Where lithium is mined todayMining in Argentina

Where next

Mines

Same kind of depositOlarozRio Tinto's 2025 report lists both Argentine brine operations within Arcadium Lithium.3

Deposit types

An example ofLithium brine (salar)A working example of the lithium brine (salar) type.4

Sources

  1. Form 20-F for the year ended 31 December 2025 Rio Tinto (SEC)
  2. data/minerals/operations.csv Prospector Trails (internal)
  3. Annual Report on Form 20-F for 2025 Rio Tinto plc (SEC)
  4. Critical Mineral Resources of the United States (PP 1802), Chapter K: Lithium US Geological Survey

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Super Pit, Kalgoorlie by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0. Pictures: Salar de Atacama, Chile, NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team (Public domain (NASA media, no copyright)); San Francisco, California: the Golden Gate bay area. Photograph, ca. 1880., Unknown (Wellcome Collection) (Public Domain Mark 1.0).