But will its people benefit? While the indigenous Aymara population harvests and sells salt crusted on the surface of the Salar de Uyuni salt flat, the much more lucrative lithium is dissolved in ...

Also known as the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention ... s Institute of Hydraulics and Hydrology. Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest salt flat, is becoming a hotspot ...

Blackburn Distinguished Professor Erika Weinthal—to understand how lithium-brine mining at the Salar de Uyuni could affect the health and well-being of neighboring Indigenous communities.