Here’s how it works. Why it's incredible: The salt flat is the largest on Earth and contains a huge chunk of the world's lithium. Salar de Uyuni is the largest salt desert on Earth, stretching ...

New research reveals that lithium-rich brines have a chemistry dominated by boron, fundamentally different from typical saline waters. A new study published in Science Advances reveals a surprising tw ...

Adam Vengosh Weinthal (left) and Gordon Williams collect surface brines from the salt crust of the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia.

Barcroft Media via Getty Images, FILE “Nightline” traveled to the Salar de Uyuni to get a closer look at the 4,500 square miles of the world’s largest deposit of lithium, which powers ...

THIS eerily beautiful place is Salar de ... its lithium resources. The country’s state-owned mining company opened its first industrial-scale lithium plant (pictured below), near Uyuni in ...

As liquid evaporates in successive ponds, undesirable salts precipitate ... are turning their attention to the origin of lithium at the Salar de Uyuni. "We're building a geochemical model to ...

Liquid evaporates from successive ponds, leaving behind increasingly concentrated brine containing lithium and boron ... in the brine from the Salar de Uyuni, while boron alkalinity becomes ...

Freshwater trickling down from the surrounding peaks is the reason why Salar de Uyuni is one of the richest reserves of lithium on Earth, McKnight said. Hydrothermal and volcanic activity in the ...

As liquid evaporates in successive ponds, undesirable salts precipitate ... are turning their attention to the origin of lithium at the Salar de Uyuni. “We’re building a geochemical model ...