La Paz, Nov 27, 2024 (AFP) - Bolivia announces $1 bn deal with China to build lithium plants

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2024-11-27
Bolivia said Tuesday it had signed a $1 billion deal with China's CBC, a subsidiary of the world's largest lithium battery producer CATL, to build two lithium carbonate production plants in the country's southwest. Bolivia's state-owned Bolivia Lithium Deposits (YLB) said the plants -- one with an annual capacity of 10,000 tons of lithium carbonate and the other of 25,000 - would be situated in the vast Uyuni salt flats. Lithium, nicknamed "white......
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