The world's largest known lithium deposit exists within a vast salt pan called the Salar de Uyuni, which stretches for ...

Prolonged mining for lithium in Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia has potential environmental health implications. The study conducted ...

The world’s largest supply of lithium, Salar De Uyuni Salt Flats is also a great natural resource. It is a large reservoir ...

While the indigenous Aymara population harvests and sells salt crusted on the surface of the Salar de Uyuni salt flat, the much more lucrative lithium is dissolved in brine found deep underground.

Beijing is investing over $1 billion in two factories that will be built in the world's largest (and highest) salt flat, in the Andes: it will extract 35 tons of lithium per year ...

The industrial plants will be located south of the Salar de Uyuni salt flat and use the Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) method, “which allows for the recovery of more than 80% of the available ...

Negotiations have been in the works for more than a year to guarantee access to what is estimated to be half of the total lithium resources in the world, located in Salar de Uyuni. Bolloré is ...

How the McDermitt Caldera’s vast lithium mine could reshape the global market. With cultural and environmental challenges, ...

The Salar de Uyuni stretches 2.5 million acres across a high plateau in Bolivia. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert!

Bolivia's Foreign Minister Rogelio Mayta Sunday denied press reports according to which he had reached an agreement with the Russian government to exploit lithium from the Salar de Uyuni during ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- The world’s largest known lithium deposit exists within a vast salt pan called the Salar de Uyuni, which stretches for thousands of square miles atop a high, dry Andean plateau ...