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Bolivian government promoting jatropha cultivation for biodiesel production

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Bolivia President Luis Arce said that the national government has a strategy to promote the cultivation of jatropha, a plant from which the oil is extracted to serve as a raw material for biodiesel production. The natural resources, the geography we have, helps us to think about being large producers of biofuels (.)

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Lithium battery partnership ignited between Warwick University and Bolivia

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The post Lithium battery partnership ignited between Warwick University and Bolivia appeared first on Innovation News Network. The University of Warwick is partnering with the Bolivian Government to advance lithium battery technologies.

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Bolivia chooses ACI Systems as strategic partner to industrialize lithium deposits

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Salar de Uyuni in the Andes in southwestern Bolivia is the world’s largest salt flat (10,582 km 2 / 4,086 mi 2 ) and holds the. In 2013, COMIBOL completed the construction of a pilot plant for processing brines at the Salar de Uyuni, but commercial production was not expected until the fourth quarter of this year. realize this step.

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Bolivia and ACISA found joint venture to extract and industrialize lithium from residual brine; €300M investment

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As part of this joint venture, lithium hydroxide is to be extracted from residual brine from existing evaporation basins, which were constructed for the production of potassium chloride and lithium carbonate. There is a plan to establish a further joint venture to manufacture cathode material and battery systems in Bolivia and Germany.

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Start-Up MOBI LATAM partners with EnergyX to develop Bolivian domestic lithium battery supply chain

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Bolivia is lithium-rich; the USGS estimates identified lithium reserves in the country to be 21 million tons—ahead of Argentina and Chile, the other members of the “lithium triangle”. However, Bolivia is production-poor; Chile and Argentina are top global producers, but Bolivia has yet to produce the mineral in commercial quantities.

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GlobalData: Global lithium production to triple over the next four years

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High growth in demand for lithium batteries is spurring three-fold growth in mine production of lithium over the next four years, with 86kt of new lithium metal capacity coming on stream, according to data and analytics company GlobalData. million tons; Bolivia, 9 million tons; Chile, 8.4 million tons.

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Bolivian-German lithium extraction project takes major step forward; YLB partners with ACISA

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machinery to establish a value-added chain in Bolivia in the mid-term, from. right up to manufacturing battery systems as end-products. and 1,000 direct jobs and up to 10,000 indirect jobs in Bolivia in areas. The start of the production of. end of 2022, the goal is to achieve an annual production capacity of 35,000.

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