High up in the Andes mountains of Bolivia sits Salar de Uyuni, the biggest salt desert on the planet, stretching across roughly 4,000 square miles of blinding white salt. It sits nearly 12,000 feet above sea level and looks like something out of another world, especially when a thin layer of water covers the salt, turning the whole place into a giant mirror. But there is way more going on here than just a pretty view. Beneath this dry, cracked surface lies one of the richest lithium deposits anywhere on Earth, a mineral the whole world is racing to get its hands on right now.
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