Lithium aka white Gold

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00:00Beneath Bolivia's surreal salt flats sits the largest deposit of lithium in the world.

00:06The lightweight metal is known as white gold because it's essential for making rechargeable

00:11batteries that power things like computers, mobile phones and electric cars.

00:16The lithium here in Chile is locked away in underground salt water, or brine.

00:21Billions of gallons are pumped to the surface every year, where it is left to evaporate

00:25and concentrate.

00:27It can take around 18 months for the brine to move through the series of ponds.

00:32The concentrated lithium brine is then processed into lithium carbonate, which is then taken

00:37to another factory near the coast where it is purified into battery grade lithium.

00:43It can take more than a thousand gallons of brine to produce enough lithium for just one

00:47electric car battery.

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