Bolivia’s lithium reserves fuel dreams of prosperity
Posted: December 14, 2009 at 4:17 a.m.
The wind whips across a 3,900-square-mile expanse of salt on a desert plateau in Bolivia’s Andes Mountains. Plastic washtubs filled with an emerald-colored liquid rich in lithium dot the Uyuni Salt Flat, all the way to the volcanoes on the horizon.
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Business, Pages 25 on 12/14/2009
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