Compass Minerals uses evaporation ponds to extract products like salt, potassium and magnesium. The company says it would have used these same ponds to produce lithium, requiring no additional ...

Evaporation ponds that are pinkish-red due to high salinity levels are visible on the north section of the Great Salt Lake in August 2021 near Corinne, Utah.

Evaporation ponds that are a pinkish-red color due to high salinity levels in the Great Salt Lake on August 2, 2021. The lake's water levels have risen half way to a healthy point.

(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 ...

A new company says it wants to harvest lithium from the Great Salt Lake in a way that will use no evaporation ponds and deplete no ... versus the 55,000-acre solar pond complex used by Compass ...

The Great Salt Lake has had record-low water levels in recent years. Joey Ingelhart/Getty Images 2024-02-13T04:15:22Z ...

Editor’s note: This article is published through the Great Salt Lake Collaborative, ... The east evaporation ponds of Compass Minerals as seen from above on Oct. 18, 2016.