The lithium production It is also the sixth mining sector in number of workers: it has a total of 2,121 positions, 5.8% of the total of sector. On the other hand, the lithium exploration and financing uses a total of 677 people, a 1.9% of the totalalthough it had a year-on-year growth of 71.4%.
The lithium production in May 2022 employed 407 women (11.2% of female mining employment) that represent 19.2% of employment in the sector, placing it as the second with the highest female participation. In year-on-year terms, it had an increase of 59.6%, thus creating 152 new jobs for women in the field. In turn, the lithium exploration and financing employed 160 women (4.4% of female mining employment) covering 23.6% of employment in the sector, being the first mining sector with the highest participation of women in its payroll. In year-on-year terms, it had an increase of 83.9%, creating 73 new jobs for women.
Lithium, like most mining activities, register formal wages well above the national average: the average salary in lithium production is $313,483while in the exploration and financing of lithium, it scales to $396,333the second best paid, according to data from the Information System Open to the Community on Mining Activity in Argentina (SIACAM).
The litigation exportsor they are also the ones that showed the greatest dynamism in the first half of the year: according to data from Indec, foreign sales of lithium increased by 171% and totaled US$252 million. This is inserted in a global energy crisis and the impulse of many countries for the development of sustainable mobility, an item for which lithium is a fundamental input.
In addition, in September of this year YPF, the Ministries of Science, Technology and Innovation, of Defense, of Buenos Aires Production, the Conicet and the National University of La Plata (UNLP) joined forces to create the first lithium ion battery factory of Argentina. Today lithium exports are from freshly mined raw material.
Source: Ambito
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