Lithium Harvesting at Salar de Uyuni - NASA
Apr 26, 2019 The government began investing in a lithium mining operation at Salar de Uyuni about a decade ago. Landsat satellites began to detect evidence of buildings and evaporation ponds in the southern end of the salt flat in 2011. The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 acquired the first image above on April 12, 2013. Nearly six years later, the size of the facility had grown significantly
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