With the Great Salt Lake’s two largest mineral companies ramping up to harvest one of the world’s hottest commodities — lithium — bits of the lake soon could be found in your phone, laptop and car battery.
“It’s used in a multitude of very mundane things that no one ever considers,” said Brian Jaskula, a mineral commodity specialist who has researched lithium for the U.S. Geological Survey since 2008.
Compass Minerals in Ogden, April 11, 2022. Compass Minerals produces salt, plant nutrients and magnesium chloride for application 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.In order for them to be economic and achieve the lowest production costs, they have to be blessed with a nice, hot, dry environment,” Jaskula said of brine mineral harvesting.
“It has this outer electron it really wants to get rid of,” Jaskula said. “Because of that reactivity … it has the benefit of having a lot of innate energy in it, as well as being very light.” “The last half of this decade, the demand is going to be in excess of what production can come up with,” he said. “There’s this mad scramble for all these existing operations to expand their capacity, and for new mines to come online.”for up to 95% of the lithium mined in Australia“Even the most unimpressive lithium operation, if there’s even a chance it will become economical, China will make a deal,” Jaskula said. “U.S.
Aerial photographs of Compass Minerals in Ogden, April 11, 2022. Compass Minerals produces salt, plant nutrients and magnesium chloride for application 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.
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