Big lithium riches await in Bolivia #8212; the challenge is extracting them

Bumpy dirt roads, thin air at high altitude, the ordeal of bringing labor into a blinding white salt flat #8212; all of this stands between anyone who dreams of retrieving Bolivia's lithium and turning it into electric car batteries.

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