Tag: Bolivian Lithium Deposit (YLB)

• Thursday, April 25th 2024 - 13:31 UTC

  Bolivia: Former YLB executive found dead left letter denying allegations

  

  Former Yacimientos de Litio Bolivianos (YLB) Executive Manager Juan Carlos Montenegro Bravo was found dead Wednesday. He left a letter explaining that he would make a painful decision because he could not stand to be “humiliated by a rigged justice.”

• Friday, January 19th 2024 - 10:27 UTC

  Lithium: Bolivia's YLB signs new agreement with China's CBC

  

  A new agreement between Bolivia's state-owned Yacimientos de Litio Bolivianos (YLB) and the Chinese consortium CATL, BRUNP & CMOC (CBC) was signed Thursday to install a lithium carbonate pilot plant with Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) technology in the Uyuni salt flat and would have a production of 2,500 tons per year after an investment worth US$ 90 million.

• Thursday, December 13th 2018 - 09:04 UTC

  Bolivia, Germany agree to join efforts in extracting lithium from Uyuni

  

  Germany and Bolivia will join forces for the extraction of lithium, as Europe's largest economy moves to secure supplies for battery-powered vehicles, which are believed to be looming over, the German government announced Wednesday.