Lithium Triangle

[1] The lithium in the triangle is concentrated in various salt pans that exist along the Atacama Desert and neighboring arid areas.

Of these, the core of Salar de Atacama in Chile has the highest concentration of lithium (0.15% by weight) among all world's brine sources.

[9] Currently, many countries situated in the Global North are trying to incorporate technocratic solutions in order to achieve sustainability directives.

[10] Many of these directives include solutions for which lithium is an essential resource, e.g., the shift to electric vehicles and battery storage systems.

[11][12] This green extractivist practice taking place in the lithium triangle leads to severe impact on the environment and socio-economic/socio-cultural livelihoods of local residents.

[17] The cooperation with ACISA was, by June 2022, deemed to have stalled with Bolivia negotiating larger lithium projects with Canadian, Chinese, and United States companies.

[23] It is argued that "[a]greements between Indigenous organizations and lithium companies have brought significant economic resources for community development, but have also expanded the mining industry's capacity for social control in the area.".