Outotec Oyj will supply lithium filtration technology to the Bolivian state-owned mineral company Corporación Minera de Bolivia (Comibol).
The Finnish processing company will supply filters, spare parts, and start-up services to a pilot plant to be built in the Salar de Uyuni in Potosi, southern Bolivia.
In 2010 an agreement with South Korea was signed and in April a consortium (made up of government-owned mining company Korea Resources Corp. [Kores], and South Korean steel group Posco) agreed to foot the bill for half of the costs to build a lithium...