STORY: As temperatures soar in Basra in southern Iraq, this sea water salt factory embraces the heat.The Basra Salt Factory ...

A salt production factory in the southern Iraqi province of Basra welcomes the heat as summer temperatures start to rise.

Much of the world's lithium occurs in salty waters with fundamentally different chemistry than other naturally saline waters like the ocean, according to a study published on May 23 in Science ...

At Emerson Exchange 2025 in San Antonio, Texas, Gabriel Carrizo, electronics engineer, Rio Tinto; Leonel Brunet, senior ...

In the spectacular multicolored mountains of the lower Andes, el agua es vida — water is life. During Carnaval, women poured ...

Scientists have made a surprising discovery about the chemistry of lithium-rich salty waters, known as brines, found in some ...

After decades understanding pH controls boron speciation in seawater and other saline waters it turns out the opposite is ...

After evaporation, the lithium chloride from ... The country of Chile owns the mining rights to the Atacama Salt Flat. The Chilean Economic Development Agency, or Corfo, manages the agreements ...

Open pit mining commenced at the site in the ... ponds located on 100 acres of land are used to store the salt water, which evaporates in the desert sun, leaving behind a solid mass of salt ...

Mine manager Doug Doney checks on machinery ... caused ancient seas to expand and retreat and with every evaporation, more salt was left behind. In some places, the layers of salt are tens of ...