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He also acts as a liaison to the press. He has a PhD in electrochemistry from the University of Nottingham.","https://www.linkedin.com/in/birdmatthew/",{"type":571,"content":572},"doc",[573,580,585,590,595,604,611,616,623,628,635,642,647,654,659,664,673,678,683,688,693,698],{"type":574,"attrs":575,"content":576},"paragraph",{"textAlign":49},[577],{"text":578,"type":579},"Bolivia sits in the shadow of Chile and Argentina, but it has plans of its own to develop its lithium production capabilities. 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Bolivia’s state lithium company Yacimientos de Litio Bolivianos (YLB) estimates the Uyuni Salar hosts some 21 million tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent in a resource prepared with SRK and based on drilling wells to depths of 50m across 64% of the salar.",{"type":574,"attrs":596,"content":597},{"textAlign":49},[598,600,602],{"text":599,"type":579},"“One of our most important strategic bets as a country is on lithium and we have made important advances. Bolivia developed control of its natural resources in the Salar de Uyuni and is now entering the industrialisation phase with the incorporation of private capital as part of an overall $4 billion investment programme,” Mariana Prado, minister of planning and development told ",{"text":601,"type":579},"Benchmark Minerals",{"text":603,"type":579},".",{"type":574,"attrs":605,"content":606},{"textAlign":49},[607,609],{"text":608,"type":579},"Bolivia expropriated 11 Uyuni mineral claims held by Chile’s Quiborax in 2004 after inspections uncovered irregularities in customs and tax affairs. In June 2018, it agreed to pay more than US$42.6",{"text":610,"type":579},"million in compensation.",{"type":574,"attrs":612,"content":613},{"textAlign":49},[614],{"text":615,"type":579},"With lithium at the centre of the expanding lithium-ion battery market, Bolivia has successfully attracted foreign help to develop its resources.",{"type":574,"attrs":617,"content":618},{"textAlign":49},[619,621,622],{"text":620,"type":579},"In December 2018, it signed a $900 million agreement with Germany’s ACI Systems for the exploitation of lithium from Uyuni for battery production for electric cars and an industrial cathode plant. YLB followed this by selecting China’s Xinjiang Tbea Group in association with America Baocheng Development and Salar Technology as its partner to help develop $2.3 billion of lithium production projects. “The Japanese and South Koreans really wanted to win this contract, but the Chinese won,” former Comibol president and former deputy mining and metallurgy minister Hector Cordoba told ",{"text":601,"type":579},{"text":603,"type":579},{"type":574,"attrs":624,"content":625},{"textAlign":49},[626],{"text":627,"type":579},"DOWNSTREAM PLANS",{"type":574,"attrs":629,"content":630},{"textAlign":49},[631,633],{"text":632,"type":579},"Under the agreement, Xinjiang TBEA Group owns 49% of a joint venture (JV) with YLB which will produce lithium from the Coipasa salt flats in Oruro and in the Pastos Grandes salt flats in Potosi. Studies by Tbea-Baocheng estimate that the Salar de Coipasa potassium sulphate plant could produce 450,000 tonnes a year, the lithium hydroxide plant 60,000tpy, a boric acid plant 60,000tpy, a bromine plant 10,000tpy and sodium",{"text":634,"type":579},"bromide plant 10,000tpy. At Pastos Grandes, a lithium chloride plant could produce 60,000tpy, a lithium carbonate plant 40,000tpy and a metallic lithium plant 5,600tpy.",{"type":574,"attrs":636,"content":637},{"textAlign":49},[638,640,641],{"text":639,"type":579},"The country’s first industrial-scale lithium carbonate plant is expected to cost just under US$100 million and will have capacity to produce 15,000tpy of battery-grade lithium carbonate from 2020, Juan Carlos Montenegro, executive manager of YLB previously told ",{"text":601,"type":579},{"text":603,"type":579},{"type":574,"attrs":643,"content":644},{"textAlign":49},[645],{"text":646,"type":579},"The agreements with German and Chinese countries align with Bolivia’s strategy to not just produce battery raw materials but see their industrialisation to create value-added products. Raw materials industrialisation has been a tenet of the governments of president Evo Morales who came to power in 2007 and has twice been relected.",{"type":574,"attrs":648,"content":649},{"textAlign":49},[650,652],{"text":651,"type":579},"Industrialisation is also one of the 13 pillars for a “sovereign and dignified Bolivia” that Morales unveiled in March as part of the bicentennial agenda 2025 initiative, which is a similar concept to the World Bank’s millennium development goals. These pillars aim for the eradication of extreme poverty, access to basic services such as potable water, sewerage, electrification, health and education, increasing hydrocarbon and mineral production, and their industrialisation. “The industrialisation and transformation of",{"text":653,"type":579},"our strategic natural resources are the base to advance in the eradication of extreme poverty and contribute to the integrated development of the Bolivian people,” said Morales during the launch.",{"type":574,"attrs":655,"content":656},{"textAlign":49},[657],{"text":658,"type":579},"To this end, Bolivia will seek international investors to help develop deposits of other metals that are critical to lithium-ion battery production, as well as other elements used in battery production. “We are working towards the development of a complex of linked industries. The government is looking at developing 41 plants linked to lithium from wire and other inputs to the bags used to transport lithium products,” said Prado.",{"type":574,"attrs":660,"content":661},{"textAlign":49},[662],{"text":663,"type":579},"State mining company Comibol will be a key actor in the search for battery metals and potentially has deposits ready for development. The extensive mining history of Bolivia means Comibol has one of the largest archives of geological information in the world containing decades of information.",{"type":574,"attrs":665,"content":666},{"textAlign":49},[667,669,671,672],{"text":668,"type":579},"“There were projects advanced under previous administrations that were not developed because the metal prices were too low. We are looking through this and recalculating the economics",{"text":670,"type":579},"using today’s prices to see if they are profitable,” president Zelmar Andia told ",{"text":601,"type":579},{"text":603,"type":579},{"type":574,"attrs":674,"content":675},{"textAlign":49},[676],{"text":677,"type":579},"FOREIGN INVESTMENT",{"type":574,"attrs":679,"content":680},{"textAlign":49},[681],{"text":682,"type":579},"Comibol is currently completing the legal transfer of the Rincon del Tigre aluminium-cobalt deposit in Santa Cruz, and a couple of nickel-cobalt properties in Potosi called San Luis and Walter, which it will seek international companies to develop and exploit to provide materials to be used in the battery plant YLB is looking to develop with German investment.",{"type":574,"attrs":684,"content":685},{"textAlign":49},[686],{"text":687,"type":579},"For David Ramos, member of parliament for Potosi, the production of battery metals is an opportunity he is keen to see realised. “Potosi has all the battery elements such as zinc, lead, copper, nickel, manganese, lithium and cobalt,” he told Benchmark Minerals.",{"type":574,"attrs":689,"content":690},{"textAlign":49},[691],{"text":692,"type":579},"To encourage foreign investment, the government has developed a mining production contract (MPC) that private companies will sign with Comibol, which replaces the requirement under law 535 of 2014 for companies to enter a JV under which the state entity receives 55% of profits. Under the MPC — valid for up to 45 years — Comibol will receive a 4% net smelter royalty. These contracts must be ratified by parliament which will effectively make them law, providing additional investor protection.",{"type":574,"attrs":694,"content":695},{"textAlign":49},[696],{"text":697,"type":579},"“The production contract with Comibol companies can negotiate is a strong signal of the government opening up to private foreign capital in mining. The government is much more open to foreign investment than four years ago and it is a strong message that the country is not going to follow the path of Venezuela. It advanced this very quietly through the mining and metallurgy minister because it knows conservative groups like the unions will not like it, but no one in government is opposing it,” said Cordoba.",{"type":574,"attrs":699,"content":700},{"textAlign":49},[701],{"text":702,"type":579},"A mining incentive law is also under consideration following the success of a similar law recently developed for the hydrocarbons sector. Legislators are studying what technical and legal modifications need to be made to law 535 with the aim of presenting a draft bill in late June 25. “We are going to launch a mining incentives law as we see the region capturing a lot of mining investment but not in Bolivia. We expect to present this bill within the next month or two,” said Prado.","Bolivia sits in the shadow of Chile and Argentina, but it has plans of its own to develop its lithium production capabilities. Paul Harris reports from La Paz Bolivia aims to benefit from battery raw materials demand as it pursues reforms to attract foreign investment with some US$4 billion of investment expected in lithium projects […]",[705],{"slug":562,"name":563,"content":706},{"job_title":565,"image":707,"bio":568,"linkedin":569},{"filename":567},"\u003C!--#storyblok#{\"name\": \"article\", \"space\": \"\", \"uid\": \"0abe1b74-f9c9-488b-a419-0a7866b14100\", \"id\": \"\"}-->","article",[711,714],{"slug":712,"name":713},"batteries","Batteries",{"slug":715,"name":716},"critical-minerals","Critical Minerals","private",{"id":49,"alt":719,"name":719,"focus":719,"title":719,"source":719,"filename":720,"copyright":719,"fieldtype":721,"meta_data":722,"is_external_url":51},"","https://a.storyblok.com/f/287943243085208/1dfb725d13/bm-la-paz-credit-christian-keller-e1563464399615.jpg","asset",{"alt":719,"title":719,"source":719,"copyright":719},"Jul 22, 2019","22nd July 2019",[],[],1792773942641]