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The 9 companies will be selected by YLB in 2022:
YLB seeks a profit of more than 51% from the extraction of lithium
24 Oct 2021
https://www.lostiempos.com/actualidad/economia/20211024/ylb-busca-ganancia-superior-al-51-extraccion-del-litio
In 2022, Yacimientos de Litio Bolivianos (YLB) will choose the international companies with which it will establish partnerships to implement direct lithium extraction technology (EDL). The state company will seek to have a 51 percent profit, at least.
"We are going to incorporate technologists or companies that want to invest to develop the industrialization of lithium, as long as they respect our sovereignty, we must maintain at least 51 percent of profits from the exploitation of our resources," said the Deputy Minister of High Energy Technologies, Álvaro Arnez.
In April, the call was launched for foreign companies to apply pilot tests with the implementation of the EDL in the Uyuni and Pastos Grandes salt flats, in Potosí, and Coipasa, in Oruro.
YLB will select companies that exceed the requested performance, including lower cost and lower environmental impact, to establish partnerships and begin working on the application of this technology tool from the second half of 2022, the report adds.
“The lithium carbonate industrial plant in Uyuni is currently under construction and we expect it to start operations at the end of 2022. What we want is that from this work we can immediately build another plant for the large-scale production of cathodes and batteries. ", advertisement.
Arnez pointed out that by 2024 there would be the production of lithium ion batteries on an industrial scale.
YLB generated revenues of 128 million Bolivianos between January and September of this year from the sale of potassium chloride and lithium carbonate.