Pursuits
Curious Case of Billion-Dollar Lithium Mine Sold for a Song
- Remote brine deposit in Argentine mountains lures investors
- Mine revalued at least five times amid soaring lithium demand
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High in the Andes, in northwest Argentina, stories are told of fortunes being made in lithium, the wonder metal inside iPhones to Teslas that has captivated global investors from Warren Buffett down.
This is not one of those stories.