Compass Minerals makes big claims about Great Salt Lake lithium but lacks state approvals
The already beleaguered lake likely can’t endure the amount of extraction the company wants, expert says, despite claims the process will be “sustainable.”
(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Aerial photographs of Compass Minerals in Ogden, April 11, 2022. The plant includes a 55,000-acre solar evaporation pond complex producing sulfate of potash and magnesium chloride from the Great Salt Lake.