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Is Bolivia Doing Anything to Extract Lithium?

The solardio uni is a salt flat in southern bolivia that spans four thousand square miles. It's so vast and so white you can see it from the moon. The government has been trying to figure out how to xtracted lithium since around two thousand eight. Lithium, of course, is used in electric car batteries, selphone batteries, solar panels. But even though bolivia has the world's largest lithium deposits, it's actually lagging far behind chile in Argentina.

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