Bolivia’s lithium lies in salt flats where surrounding communities farm Andean grains like quinoa, amaranth and cañahua and raise wild llamas that transport salt and produce wool. The 77 ...

The researchers from Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment have been examining the potential environmental and human health impacts of lithium mining both domestically and ...

Reports have now emerged that the U.S. may have fortuitously discovered lithium deposits bigger than Bolivia’s salt flats, home to the world's biggest lithium reserves. While the discovery ...

LA PAZ, July 20 (Reuters ... global leader in lithium resources. The new figure, reached after more than 66 wells were explored across the Coipasa and Pastos Grandes salt flats, compares ...

Lithium extraction poses environmental risks, particularly to water security in the arid region where the Uyuni Salt Flats are located. Bolivia is making a play to become a major global lithium ...

This beautiful and otherworldly terrain serves as a lucrative extraction site for salt and lithium—the element ... While the salt flats are one of Bolivia’s most popular attractions, it ...

Scientists have made a surprising discovery about the chemistry of lithium-rich salty waters, known as brines, found in some ...

Bolivia's state-owned company Yacimientos ... demonstrated that they apply to the characteristics of the two salt flats, with a lithium recovery rate of over 80%. A statement from the Bolivian ...

The salt flats of Salar de Uyuni near Potosí ... They argue that the agreement could mean the “denationalization of lithium” in Bolivia. Some opposition comes from the mining regions ...

In Chile, where the lithium is found in the Atacama desert, engineers can dig down dozens of meters (yards) into the salt flats. But this is not possible at Bolivia's Uyuni salt flat, the world's ...