Bolivia’s lithium-rich salt flats
A Japanese tourist couple walks on Bolivia’s Uyuni, the world’s largest salt flat said to also have one of the richest deposits of lithium.
Tapping into a vast lithium bounty, President Evo Morales envisions a Bolivian revolution charged on the stuff used to make our smartphone and electric car batteries.
Here are photos from the massive salt flats thought to have one of the world's biggest lithium reserves.
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