Ivanhoe Electric copper exploration Chile entered a new phase through a strategic partnership with SQM. The companies will explore copper across SQM concessions in northern Chile’s Atacama Desert, with the agreement covering approximately 2,000 square kilometers of highly prospective terrain. Ivanhoe Electric will deploy its proprietary Typhoon geophysical surveying system across the concessions, while Computational Geosciences Inc. supports the program using advanced data inversion software. Together, these technologies aim to detect copper mineralization beneath challenging surface conditions. The Atacama Desert contains extensive caliche cover, which complicates traditional geophysical surveys, but Ivanhoe Electric designed the Typhoon system to penetrate highly resistive caliche layers, enabling greater accuracy in identifying deep sulfide mineralization.

Advanced geophysics unlocks copper beneath caliche. Ivanhoe Electric copper exploration Chile focuses on concessions already producing iodine and potassium nitrate, which lie along major porphyry copper and polymetallic manto belts, with several world-class copper mines operating near the project area in northern Chil...