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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. According to a 1978 study by the US Geological Survey, widely scattered brine samples from Salar de Uyuni show lithium values ranging from 80 to 1500 ppm. world’s largest known deposit of lithium.

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Brine-to-battery company EnergyX secures $450M funding agreement with Global Emerging Markets

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GEM oversees a wide range of developing market investment vehicles and has executed more than 530 transactions in 75 countries. Its LiTAS technology has been piloted in the Lithium Triangle in South America and increases lithium production from 30% in existing systems up to 94% recovery rate for that particular project.

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Berkeley Lab leading investigation to quantify and characterize Salton Sea’s geothermal lithium resources

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But there is a wide range of estimates in terms of the size of the resource, and also not a great understanding of where the lithium comes from, the rate at which it would decline over time with extraction of lithium from the geothermal brines, and whether it would be replenished by the remaining lithium in the host rocks.

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What Causes Electric Scooters to Be Expensive in India?

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Right now in India, an electric scooter with a decent range and power will cost you somewhere around one lack or above. Knowing the importance of these elements, china made strategic investments and bought mines in the countries such as Congo, Bolivia, Chile, and Australia where these elements are available.

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Rough road for EV industry

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As the price of EV batteries continues to skyrocket , major automakers ranging from Ford and GM to BMW and Volkswagen are shoring up supply chain strategies. Chile and Bolivia appear to be heading down the same path, placing rigid restrictions on outside access to the countries’ lithium. “We’ll get the semiconductors,” Farley said.

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IRENA: diversifying critical material supply chains minimizes geopolitical risks

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The energy transition requires a massive increase in the supply of critical materials, yet supply chains remain vulnerable to a range of geopolitical risks. For example, Bolivia has 21 million tons of lithium reserves, but produced less than 1% of the world’s supply. By contrast, critical material reserves are widely distributed.

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