Argentina and Bolivia, where an arid climate and water-trapping basins have helped form an estimated 98 million tons of lithium deposits. Mining the lithium involves extracting salty brine and ...

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

In 2024, Bolivia’s state-owned lithium company, signed contracts worth a combined $2 billion with Russian and Chinese companies to mine lithium from Salar de Uyuni in the country’s southwest.

Bolivia today is still shackled to its past ... fill out forms at the table before entering the facility. Though lithium-mining operations exist on every continent except Antarctica, up to ...

CEO Jakob Stausholm says brines in Argentina, Chile and Bolivia offer the best chance for the world to access low-cost, ...

Together with Bolivia and Chile, Argentina is part of the so-called lithium triangle, which contains about 54% of the world's reserves of this metal. According to the Argentine Chamber of Mining ...

Steel from the State-owned El Mutún could be used in constructing agricultural equipment, storage facilities, telecommunications towers, medical facilities, mining infrastructure, pipelines ...

Chile’s government claims to be making big moves to decarbonize the mining sector. What actions has it been taking? Chile is ...

Kachi lithium resource increase comes as sale talks heat up amid shifting market dynamics and rising M&A activity in ...