You can't drink lithium, but it can create jobs14 May 2021 15:42
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"Marie Antoinette only dreams that her son can return to practice in her town, when she opens the Bacanora Lithium open-pit mine . Although he is unaware of the entire project, he believes that this is more likely to happen now that the company has begun preparations to start its second phase: the construction of the processing plant on the outskirts of Bacadéhuachi, in Rancho Las Perdices, where at least 25 people -with a majority of locals- they are already working on clearing 27 hectares."
"for them it means a hope to revive the town that lacks sources of employment"
"As reported by the Government of the State of Sonora, Bacanora Lithium would generate 1,200 jobs only for its construction phase"
"environmental pollution from lithium extraction "is not much","