A young girl labors shoveling salt into a pile on the salt flats of Uyuni, Bolivia. Residents have survived for generations by collecting the salt and selling it across the country in the Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia on Tuesday, January 27, 2009. Now the salt flats are attracting multinationals because underneath the salt lies the world’s largest lithium reserves. Lithium is the key component for electronics batteries and electric car batteries. Photo by Noah Friedman-Rudovsky/WPN/ABACAPRESS.COM