Beneath Bolivia's Salt Flats: Lithium Wealth
Noah Friedman-Rudovsky
Extraction
The flats do not yield their mineral wealth very easily. Once pumped up from beneath the surface, the saltwater containing the lithium is left to dry in a series of evaporation pools.
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