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Lithium Triangle - ARGENTINA - Salars de Olaroz, de Hombre Muerto, de Rincon, de Cauchari, de Vida and de Diablillos, Salinas Grande; CHILE - Salar de Atacama; BOLIVIA - Salar Uyuni
Juyjuy, Argentina
Main commodities: Li Potash B




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 2011.    
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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Salar de Olaroz

    Selected References
Lopez Steinmetz, R.L.,  2017 - Lithium- and boron-bearing brines in the Central Andes: exploring hydrofacies on the eastern Puna plateau between 23° and 23°30′S: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.52, pp. 35-50.
Lopez Steinmetz, R.L., Salvi, S., Sarchi, C., Santamans, C. and Lopez Steinmetz, L.C.,  2020 - Lithium and Brine Geochemistry in the Salars of the Southern Puna, Andean Plateau of Argentina: in    Econ. Geol.   v.115, pp. 1079-1096.
Meixner, A., Alonso, R.N., Lucassen, F., Korte, L. and Kasemann, S.A.,  2022 - Lithium and Sr isotopic composition of salar deposits in the Central Andes across space and time: the Salar de Pozuelos, Argentina: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.57, pp. 255–278.
Meixner, A., Sarchi, C., Lucassen, F., Becchio, R., Caffe, P.J., Lindsay, J., Rosner, M. and Kasemann, S.A.,  2020 - Lithium concentrations and isotope signatures of Palaeozoic basement rocks and Cenozoic volcanic rocks from the Central Andean arc and back-arc: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.55, pp. 1070-1084.
Sarchi, C., Lucassen, F., Meixner, A., Caffe, P.J., Becchio, R. and Kasemann, S.A.,  2023 - Lithium enrichment in the Salar de Diablillos, Argentina, and the influence of Cenozoic volcanism in a basin dominated by Paleozoic basement: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.58, pp. 1351-1370. doi.org/10.1007/s00126-023-01181-z.


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