YLB19 Mar 2024 13:40
La Paz, March 17, 2024 (UCI-YLB).- The executive president of the National Strategic Public Company of Bolivian Lithium Deposits (YLB), Karla Calderón, reported that the international call for the use of evaporitic resources in seven Bolivian salt flats entered the technical stage, after 25 companies were authorized to move to phase II. "We have concluded the first phase of the international call for the development of evaporitic resources (...) we have already entered the second phase, from there, the next phases are technical," he said in an interview with Bolivia TV.
Calderón explained that, initially, 38 international companies submitted their letters of expressions of interest, however, only 25 were authorized after the verification of compliance with 14 administrative and legal requirements, within the framework of the call. "This verification allows us to be sure that we are going to work with the most serious companies, legally speaking.
In the following days, the information exchange agreement will be signed to begin the second phase," he said. According to the call, in the second phase, the companies in the race will prepare proposals for their projects, after signing agreements for the exchange of information with YLB. "We are looking for the best technology to develop lithium and evaporitic resources projects (...) the companies will test their technology in the salt flats and it does not involve an investment from the State, then the prospecting of industrial plants will be carried out, under the sovereign model," he added.
The state-owned company launched an international call on January 26 with the aim of implementing pilot projects for the development of evaporitic resources in seven Bolivian salt flats: Coipasa, Uyuni, Pastos Grandes, Capina, Cañapa, Chiguana and Empexa, and to demonstrate the technological, economic and financial viability of industrial-scale plant
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