A Chilean company that passes from the ashes to the world leadership in 50 years deserves to have its story told. This special multimedia examines in detail the little-known highs and lows of the adventure that transformed the old and unproductive saltpeter reserves in the middle of the desert into the highly valuable potassium nitrate used in today’s agricultural industry. The tireless search for potassium began on the Atacama salt flats, where a rich source of lithium, a mineral of strategic value and importance in the new technologies that are changing today’s world, was then discovered.

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