The mining firm Lithium Corporation of America extracted lithium from pegmatite and spodumene ores in the Black Hills of South Dakota and other places.
The people of Potosí, like the people of Tierra Amarilla in Chile, imagine extraction that is controlled by those who live nearby without destroying the earth.
The people of Potosí, Bolivia, like those of Tierra Amarilla, Chile, want to imagine a different kind of extraction, write Vijay Prashad and Taroa Zuniga Silva.
By Vijay Prashad and Taroa Zuniga Silva
Peoples Dispatch
In late July, a large sinkhole appeared near the town of Tierra Amarilla
A large sinkhole appeared, near the town of Tierra Amarilla in Chile’s Copiapó province in the Atacama salt flat, in late July. The crater, which has a diameter of more than 100 feet, emerged in one of Chile’s most lucrative regions for copper and lithium extraction. The nearby Candelaria mining complex 80% owned by Canada’s Lundin Mining Corporation and 20% by Japan’s