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NYT: The Lithium Chase

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Fun fact, half the world's lithium is in Bolivia of all places.  Always looking for the "next big thing" I had looked into lithium investments in the past due to the potential of large scale increase usage, but outside of Sociedad Quimica Y Minera de Chile (SQM) - a hybrid fertilizer / lithium play - there were not really any decent sized investment candidates I could find.  [Jul 11, 2008: Let's Talk About Sociedad Quimica Y Minera de Chile (SQM)]  Judging fro

 
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