Weekly Report - 7 May 2015 (WR-15-18)

BOLIVIA | Keen interest in potassium plant. On 4 May the Bolivian government revealed that firms from China, Peru and Spain had presented proposals for the construction of an industrial potassium plant in the south-east of the country at an estimated cost of US$178m. The plant is to be located in the Uyuni salt flats, in the Andean department of Potosí, which also harbours large lithium reserves, and it is expected to produce 700,000 tonnes (t) of potassium salts annually.