A Tale of Two Lithium Producers
The global market is scrambling to extract Argentine and Chilean lithium. Argentine president Javier Milei has unleashed a frenzy of corporate profit, while Chile’s Gabriel Boric is demanding that his country get its fair share.
Half of the world’s known lithium sits in the briny salt flats of three countries: Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile. Bolivia has the largest deposits in the “Lithium Triangle,” but resistance from indigenous groups and testy relations with foreign capital have largely kept its lithium in the ground. With electric vehicle producers expecting a lithium supply […]
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