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White Gold: Lithium, Power, and the Andes

The future of energy will require vast amounts of lithium, and nowhere in the world holds more “white gold” than the Andes. In Chile and Bolivia, at the heart of South America’s Lithium Triangle, some of the world’s most important lithium reserves and ambitions converge. Once again, Latin America has the raw resources the world craves. Is this a path to development — or the latest chapter of the resource curse? Across the vast salt flats of Bolivia and the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, the global lithium boom is reshaping some of South America’s most fragile ecosystems and most strategic resource regions. As demand for electric vehicles, battery storage, and renewable energy accelerates worldwide, lithium extraction in Chile and Bolivia has become central to the clean-energy transition and the geopolitics of critical minerals. White Gold takes viewers inside the rapidly expanding lithium mining industry, where multinational corporations, state-owned enterprises, and foreign investors compete for control of one of the world’s most valuable battery minerals. Through rare on-the-ground access, the film reveals how lithium brine extraction, water use, and industrial infrastructure are transforming landscapes, groundwater systems, and Indigenous and rural communities. Filmed by Dr. Samuel George, this short is part of Bertelsmann Foundation Documentaries’ ongoing investigation into the global race for critical minerals. See more at www.bfnadocs.org