Much of the world's lithium occurs in salty waters with fundamentally different chemistry than other naturally saline waters ...

Measuring water availability for lithium extraction is still unreliable, especially in South America’s high-altitude Lithium Triangle ... it in large evaporation ponds where the sun removes ...

In the spectacular multicolored mountains of the lower Andes, el agua es vida — water is life. During Carnaval, women poured ...

South America’s lithium triangle is home to vast evaporation ponds that quietly produce lithium, often called white gold, which powers our phones, electric cars, and batteries. These ponds ...

If you put on your lithium-spotting goggles, there's all kinds of potential. At Silver Peak, there's a giant hill of sand looking out over the evaporation ponds. It was dredged up from the ponds ...

For indigenous communities in the Lithium Triangle, the rush for the metal ... before pumping the water to the surface and distributing it into ponds, often with a surface area thousands of ...

such as South America’s so-called ‘lithium triangle,’ which overlaps with the Atacama, the world’s driest desert. What’s more, extraction through brine ponds also poses a potential ...

The Lithium Triangle is an area between Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile, encompassing close to 60% of the world’s lithium resources. With around 45 million tonnes lying underneath the vast salt ...

Teague Egan's tour of Bolivia's famed salt flat in 2018 changed the trajectory of his career. The flat is called Salar de Uyuni. The seemingly endless expanse of chalky white crust is home to the ...

It also continues to build up its in-situ mining inventory with over 2,800t of lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) now accumulating in the ponds ... of the famed Lithium Triangle close to major ...