Argentina's White Gold

Description
Number JM 8498
Collection Journeyman
Title Argentina's White Gold
Duration 00:24:00
Date of production 2023
Keyword Places : Argentina, Bolivie, Chile, South America
Index : extraction, Community, Fossil energy
Sound Sonoer
Summary Argentina is home to huge reserves of lithium, a light metal used in electric batteries that is likely to be vital for reducing our reliance on planet-warming fossil fuels. But those reserves lie beneath the vast Andean salt plains – a unique ecosystem stretching between Argentina, Bolivia and Chile that Indigenous communities are desperate to protect from a mining boom.