Posted on 09/15/2021 11:22:46 PM PDT by blueplum
SALTA, Argentina, Sept 14 (Reuters) - In Argentina's remote northern Salta province, the silence of the desert landscape is broken only by the hum of machinery pumping salt-water brine to extract lithium, a sign of accelerating efforts to ride the global electric vehicle boom.
Beneath the South American country's highland salt flats, reached by winding mountain roads, is buried the world's third largest reserve of the ultra-light battery metal, which has seen a price spike over the past year on the back of a global push towards greener modes of transport.
Already the fourth top producer of lithium worldwide, Argentina's national and local governments are now looking to speed up development...
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NOTE TO SELF: Buy more tulip bulbs.
When the EV boom turns to bust, they can still sell lithium to the maniacs in the USS of A.
That’d be way cheaper and less polluting than attempting to make elemental lithium, since lithium carbonate production is how that metal is extracted anyway (reaction with sodium carbonate).
This news has been out at least 40 years old. Back when geologists were still using chalk and chalk boards...
So when scientist invent teleportation?
Wonder if China owns the area yet?
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