SALT LAKE CITY — The lithium bonanza continues at the largest saline system in the West, but a new company says it can harvest the mineral in a way that doesn't contribute to ecological collapse.

SALT LAKE CITY — The state of Utah is scrutinizing a mineral company, accusing it of unauthorized extractions of lithium from the Great Salt Lake. Utah’s Division of Forestry, Fire & State ...

Read all of our stories at greatsaltlakenews.org. SALT LAKE CITY — State regulators have proposed new rules on lithium extraction with an eye toward protecting the shrinking Great Salt Lake.

Standing at the edge of the Great Salt Lake ... evaporation ponds to extract products like salt, potassium and magnesium. The company says it would have used these same ponds to produce lithium ...

Traditional lithium extraction from brine is a slow and resource-intensive process. It involves pumping brine into massive ...

This summer, a California startup plans to start construction on a project to suck up water from the Great Salt Lake to extract ... where evaporation separates lithium from other elements over ...

which uses open-air evaporation to take the mineral out of brine. Compass Minerals, a Kansas-based company, planned to extract lithium from the Great Salt Lake using this technique until Utah ...

More recently, miners have been producing lithium by evaporating concentrated salt lake brines which contain ... the need for large-scale solar evaporation ponds and uses less than a tenth of ...

Lithium has traditionally been extracted from brine in open-air evaporation ponds or mined ... construct a 5,000-ton plant at Utah’s Great Salt Lake, slated to be completed in late 2026.

The company wants to undergo a pilot project first, to prove its method works at the Great Salt Lake. Once fully operational, Sully estimates Lilac’s lithium plant would occupy around 25 acres ...