LA PAZ – The Bolivian government said it will wait several years before partnering with a foreign company to produce lithium batteries and in the meantime will go ahead with the first stages of industrializing the metal.
Mining Minister Luis Alberto Echazu told a press conference that the first projects, up to an including the production of lithium carbonate, will be carried out entirely by the state, with foreign partners only needed beginning in 2013.
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