Showing posts with label Uyuni Salt Flats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Uyuni Salt Flats. Show all posts

01 November 2009

BOLIVIA: Lithium Suitors Show-off Technologies.

LAHT/
Nine foreign companies hoping to join in a project to exploit Bolivia’s massive new lithium reserves demonstrated their technologies in La Paz.
Bolivia plans a pilot plant in the southwestern town of Uyuni in 2010 that will produce lithium carbonate – a key ingredient in batteries that power laptop computers, cell phones and other devices – before building a larger plant in 2013.

17 August 2009

Bolivia Needs $800 Million To Develop Lithium Field.

LAHT.

Bolivia estimates it needs $800 million to develop the lithium industry in the Uyuni Salt Flat, located in the Andean province of Potosi.

The Uyuni Salt Flat may contain the world's largest supply of the lithium, a material important for batteries.

05 August 2009

Bolivia To Drill For Rich Lithium Deposits.

From the LAHT.

A state mining company will begin exploratory drilling in Southwest Bolivia to determine the amount of lithium in the Uyuni Salt Flats...said to be the largest deposit in the world.