This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image features salt flats and lakes in southwest Bolivia, near the crest of the Andes Mountains. Acquired in April 2024, this false-color image shows part of the Oruro ...

But as the vice president knows, no pitch about lithium as Bolivia’s economic salvation is complete without addressing the source of that lithium: the Salar de Uyuni. The 4,000-square-mile salt ...

An curved arrow pointing right. At a staggering 4,086 square miles, Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni is the biggest salt flat in the world. During the rainy season, it essentially turns into a giant mirror.

Both technologies demonstrated that they apply to the characteristics of the two salt flats, with a lithium recovery rate of over 80%. A statement from the Bolivian subsidiary of the Russian firm ...

According to Arce, the project involving Russia's Uranium One company regarding direct lithium extraction in Bolivian salt flats “must start operating in 2025” while that company and the state ...

In southwest Bolivia, the world’s largest salt flats sit atop a vast pool of brine on the Salar de Uyuni. Ivan Kashinsky and Karla Gachet Whenever I handle salt—to season food, pickle ...

Skate pros Madars Apse, Wes Kremer, Leo Romero and the local rippers take on the final two challenges.

Likhachev expressed readiness for comprehensive cooperation and moving forward with joint projects on Bolivian salt flats," the company’s press service said in a statement. "Alexey Likhachev ...

Neither nation wants to see its salt lake go the way of Poopó. Bolivia's high plain, the Altiplano, unfurls like a leaf-shaped plateau wedged into an unusual place where South America’s Andes ...

Until we start sending commercial flights to the moon, the Kachi Lodge on Bolivia’s Uyuni Salt Flats might be the most otherworldly vacation you can take. Opened in May at the foot of a volcano ...