The government eyes an economic bonanza in a mineral vital to electric batteries but critics ask if plan is viable and at what environmental cost
It is yet to extract significant quantities of the metal. But Bolivia may yet have time to join the market while high prices last.“There’s no time to lose,” he added.
The typical method to extract lithium involves pumping brine into ponds and processing the lithium salts that crystallise once the water has evaporated. But this method, which works well enough in the salt flats of neighbouring Chile and Argentina, is less well suited to Bolivia, where the brine has high levels of impurities and the salt flats have a rainy season of several months.And when Arce’s government came to power in 2020, this arm of the lithium project seemed to be relegated.direct lithium extraction
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