If soon everywhere in the world, electric cars are driving Lithium to be an even more important commodity. In Bolivia, the people, against international cooperation, interested in the easy-to-metal contact.
With road blockades, people in Bolivia against a German protest-Bolivian agreement for the recovery of Lithium in the Uyuni salt lake (article image). In the Central Bolivian Potosí, barred protesters, including many students, some of the main roads. Potosi is located approximately 420 kilometres South of the government seat, La Paz. The demonstrators demanded President Evo Morales, to stop the cooperation of the state company Yacimientos de Litio Bolivianos (YLB) with the German company ACISA from Baden-Württemberg. The Lithium removal from the population is not sufficiently benefit, argued the protesters.
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Bolivia – Lithium mining, with German help
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Bolivia – Lithium mining, with German help
Germany and Bolivia had agreed to last December in Berlin, a cooperation. The German company is not the only foreign Partner, the encounters currently in Bolivia on resistance. Germany is Also the Chinese company Xinjian TBEA is due to Lithium mining in the criticism.
Raw material for batteries
In the Uyuni salt lake, the world’s largest Lithium were thought to be Happen. Companies need the raw materials for batteries for electric cars. The agreement, according to the YLB will hold 51 percent of the shares in the cooperative. Is planned by 2022, at a funding of 30,000 to 40,000 tonnes of lithium hydroxide in the year. Thus, hundreds of thousands of E-cars with Lithium batteries to supply. In Reports, there is talk of an investment of 300 to 400 million euros.
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