It takes lithium and cobalt to build the batteries that power electric vehicles and e-bikes, nickel and rare earth elements ...

By Alek Buttermann Bolivia's Deputy Minister of Technological Minerals, Ismael Charly Rodríguez, has announced that ...

The Atacama Desert is a major source of lithium for EV batteries. As global demand ramps up, the local Lickanantay people are ...

Navigating a makeshift raft between drifting furniture and submerged cars, Rafael Quispe steers through his village in ...

Bolivia aims to develop plants in seven of its 28 salt flats. (Image courtesy of YLB.) Critics also question the feasibility of the UOG deal, which gives the company just 18 months to build a ...

The Bolivian mining city of Potosí is the only place in the world where members of the public can legally buy dynamite. “For the miners, the most essential thing is dynamite,” says Jhonny ...

The Bolivian mining city of Potosí is the only place in the world where members of the public can legally buy dynamite. “For the miners, the most essential thing is dynamite,” says Jhonny Condori, a ...

Deep in the gut of the Picadilly Mine near Sussex, workers once laid off when potash prices shrank, are back underground, trying to keep up with the soaring demand for road salt to be spread on ...

Officers said the bus rolled some 500m (1,640ft) down a ravine after the collision on Monday, which took place on the highway between Oruro, in the Bolivian Altiplano, and the highland mining city ...

Police said the bus rolled some 1,640 feet down a ravine after the collision, which took place on the highway between Oruro, in the Bolivian Altiplano, and the highland mining city of Potosi.