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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

Editor's note: This article is published through the Great Salt ... into the lake from snowpack runoff and fewer upstream diversions; it then drops in the summer and early fall as evaporation ...

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.