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Korea inks lithium deal with Bolivia to mine world's largest salt flats

Frik Els | August 01, 2011 | 5:30 pm Battery Metals Europe Latin America Lithium Rare Earth 

The Korea Herald reports a Korean consortium forged an agreement with Bolivia’s state-run miner Comibol over the weekend to manufacture lithium-ion battery parts, boosting Korea’s bid to tap the largest lithium deposits in the world. A research project involving extracting...

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