In Pictures: Rio Tinto Opens $1.4 Billion Lithium Projects in Argentina, Adding 25,000 Tonnes Annual Capacity

Workers extract salt from the expansive Andean salt flats that define Argentina's lithium-rich Catamarca region.

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The Salinas Grandes salt flats stretch across the puna, a landscape central to Argentina's growing lithium industry.

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Reflective pools dot the salt crust of Salinas Grandes, where lithium brine operations are expanding.

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Salt mining operations have shaped this arid Andean landscape for generations.

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Industrial infrastructure at a salt operation illustrates the processing backbone behind Argentina's lithium boom.

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Rugged Andean terrain near Catamarca underscores the remote conditions of Rio Tinto's new lithium sites.

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Salt flats and extraction sites worldwide mirror the evaporation-based methods used in Argentina's lithium brine projects.

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Terraced salt ponds show the evaporation process that concentrates brine before lithium carbonate production.

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Mining sites like this reflect the scale of investment behind Rio Tinto's $1.4 billion Argentine lithium push.

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