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Mining company responds to concerns about its plans at Great Salt Lake, but lawmakers aren’t happy

Following lithium “dust-up,” powerful legislator prepares to slap mineral extractors with unprecedented restrictions, including limits on how much lake water they can use.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Aerial photographs of Compass Minerals in Ogden, April 11, 2022. Compass Minerals produces salt, plant nutrients and magnesium chloride for appilcation primarily in North America. Ogden's 55,000-acre solar evaporation pond complex produces salt, sulfate of potash and magnesium chloride from the Great Salt Lake.