Bolivia Inaugurates Pilot Plant For Making Lithium Batteries
Bolivia Inaugurates Pilot Plant For Making Lithium Batteries
LA PAZ, Feb 18 (BERNAMA-NNN-EFE) -- Bolivian President Evo Morales inaugurated a Chinese-made pilot plant for manufacturing lithium-ion batteries.
The US$3.7 million facility was built by LinYi Dake in La Palca, a town near the Uyuni Salt Flat, which holds the world's largest reserves of lithium.
"If we in Bolivia have the greatest reserve of lithium, why not have the greatest lithium industry? This must be our goal and it is in our hands," Morales said during the ceremony.
The Uyuni Salt Flat, a dried-up sea bed that covers more than 10,000 square kilometres, contains 100 million tonnes of lithium reserves, according to the Bolivian government, though the US Geological Survey puts the figure at just 9 million tonnes.
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