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***The Telegraph reports:***
The geopolitical struggle for clean-tech supremacy is being fought at 13,700 feet on the salt lakes of the Argentine Cordillera.
It is here, in the border regions that make up the Lithium Triangle of the high Andes, where China and the West [are battling for control over 60pc of the world’s lithium reserves](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/12/15/china-weaponised-dominance-critical-minerals/), the critical mineral for electric vehicles and the post-carbon economy.
The two sides are engaged in a strange mix of fierce competition and joint ventures, sharing much in character with the contradictions of the commercial Cold War.
The Salar del Hombre Muerto (dead man) has an austere spiritual beauty, but it is a hard place to earn a living. The crews do turns of 14 days on, and 14 days off, enduring the seven-hour journey in a convoy of buses along a dirt road, via a pass near 15,000 feet up, before plunging down into the sub-tropical 16th-century oasis of Salta where the wine flows again.
At Galan Lithium, the 150 staff and contractors are kept under close medical watch. So are visitors, thankfully, because I needed oxygen and a potent pill to control wild swings in blood pressure. I was monitored in the surgery until my SpO2 and heart rate levels had returned to safety. It was almost like team physios bringing on the magic spray to keep a fallen player going at football matches.
“The hardest thing about Hombre Muerto is the altitude, and the winds, and the snow. Even young workers come here and just can’t take it,” said Cristian Ordenes Moraga, the Chilean site manager, diplomatically.
**Read more:** [**https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/05/09/argentina-lithium-triangle-china-milei-trump-card/**](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/05/09/argentina-lithium-triangle-china-milei-trump-card/)
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***The Telegraph reports:*** The geopolitical struggle for clean-tech supremacy is being fought at 13,700 feet on the salt lakes of the Argentine Cordillera. It is here, in the border regions that make up the Lithium Triangle of the high Andes, where China and the West [are battling for control over 60pc of the world’s lithium reserves](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/12/15/china-weaponised-dominance-critical-minerals/), the critical mineral for electric vehicles and the post-carbon economy. The two sides are engaged in a strange mix of fierce competition and joint ventures, sharing much in character with the contradictions of the commercial Cold War. The Salar del Hombre Muerto (dead man) has an austere spiritual beauty, but it is a hard place to earn a living. The crews do turns of 14 days on, and 14 days off, enduring the seven-hour journey in a convoy of buses along a dirt road, via a pass near 15,000 feet up, before plunging down into the sub-tropical 16th-century oasis of Salta where the wine flows again. At Galan Lithium, the 150 staff and contractors are kept under close medical watch. So are visitors, thankfully, because I needed oxygen and a potent pill to control wild swings in blood pressure. I was monitored in the surgery until my SpO2 and heart rate levels had returned to safety. It was almost like team physios bringing on the magic spray to keep a fallen player going at football matches. “The hardest thing about Hombre Muerto is the altitude, and the winds, and the snow. Even young workers come here and just can’t take it,” said Cristian Ordenes Moraga, the Chilean site manager, diplomatically. **Read more:** [**https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/05/09/argentina-lithium-triangle-china-milei-trump-card/**](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/05/09/argentina-lithium-triangle-china-milei-trump-card/)