In Chile's desert lie vast reserves of lithium — key for electric car batteries

A worker performs maintenance on pipes used during brine extraction at a lithium mine in the Atacama Desert in Chile on Aug. 24.

Chile is part of a South American region known as the "lithium triangle," where miners are trying to meet skyrocketing demand for the material.

(Image credit: Paz Olivares Droguett for NPR)



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