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.

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 ...

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 ...

Today, much of the lithium used to make batteries comes from concentrating lithium-rich brines over months or years in large evaporation ... at Utah’s Great Salt Lake.

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.

A brine pool on the Great Salt Lake’s Promontory Point, where company Waterleaf Resources has indicated it would like pull water for lithium extraction, seen on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023. The ...