UYUNI, Bolivia—Under the honeycombed crust of the salt flats of Uyuni, Bolivia, lies roughly half of the world’s lithium. Lithium-Ion (LiIon) batteries are the reason that the world’s more than 2 billion cell phones are light and pocket-sized. In recent years, this scarce element has won fame for its potential use in battery-powered cars, and in the economic stimulus package, President… return to article
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Reader Comments (1)Page 1 of 1 pageswell the lot of Bolivians, the potential of lithium wealth represents a symbolic remuneration for 500 years of natural resource looting by foreign corporations. Bolivian political analyst and former vice-minister of mining, Pedro Mariobo Moreno, calls for the “state monopoly of all the riches of the Salar of Uyuni … to avoid the third massive sacking of our natural resources, after silver and tin.”70-290 dumps
To Marcelo Castro, who is directing the construction of a pilot lithium refinery, the creation of the plant “in the Salar, one of the farthest away places, should make history as the beginning of the recuperation of our self respect.”000-253 dumps
The government has stated that the plant and its 14,000 square meters of evaporation pools will open in January 2010, but Castro says many hurdles must be overcome to begin studying the process of extraction, let alone exporting the 646-976 dumps material.
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