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Lithium concentrate at a Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile mine on the Atacama salt flat in the Atacama Desert, Chile
Lithium concentrate at a Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile mine on the Atacama salt flat in the Atacama Desert, Chile. (BLOOMBERG/Bloomberg)
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March 01, 2021 07:48 PM

Last September, in the arid hills of northern Nevada, a cluster of flowers found nowhere else on earth died mysteriously overnight.

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