The approval ensures future production and commercialisation once the current SQM Salar contract ends in 2030.

Argentina has the second-largest reserves of lithium in the world, at around 22 million tons. As battery technology advances and global demand for the mineral grows, the country is trying to position ...

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The famed Lithium Triangle encompasses parts of Chile, Argentina and Bolivia and supplies the majority of the world’s lithium and hosts the lion’s share of identified reserves.

As an example, the giant Salar de Uyuni – the largest lithium-bearing salt lake in the world – has an extremely high magnesium to lithium ratio of 19:1, above the 6:1 found at Chile’s Salar ...

As an example, the giant Salar de Uyuni – the largest lithium-bearing salt lake in the world – has an extremely high magnesium to lithium ratio of 19:1, above the 6:1 found at Chile’s Salar ...

The researchers analyzed the pH and chemistry of brines and salts associated with a pilot mining operation at the Salar de Uyuni. Mining lithium from salt pans traditionally involves pumping natural ...

But the Duke team uncovered a dramatically different scenario at the Salar de Uyuni, a giant salt pan situated on a Bolivian plateau, where the world’s largest known lithium brine deposit exists ...

As an example, the giant Salar de Uyuni – the largest lithium-bearing salt lake in the world – has an extremely high magnesium to lithium ratio of 19:1, above the 6:1 found at Chile’s Salar ...

The researchers took brine samples from evaporation ponds like this one, located at the Salar de Uyuni in Boliva. Credit: Avner Vengosh / Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment ...