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On Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni, a vast white salt flat that feels almost otherworldly, Karina Quispe is watching from the sidelines a global resource race for the world's largest - and almost ...

In Chile, where the lithium is found in the Atacama Desert, engineers can dig down dozens of meters into the salt flats. However, this is not possible at Bolivia’s Uyuni salt flat, the world’s biggest ...

In a patch of South America rich in lithium, used to make batteries for electric cars and other tech, Bolivia is lagging behind its neighbors in the race to mine the key metal.

A sculpture is seen at the Uyuni salt flat in Bolivia, where dense earth makes it harder to mine the metal compared to operations in competitor Chile ;t, the world's largest salt flat, in Uyuni, ...

In 2023 Bolivia produced 948 tonnes of lithium carbonate, a white salt that is a precursor to the compounds used in lithium-ion batteries, according to the Mining Ministry.