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Compass Minerals makes big claims about Great Salt Lake lithium but lacks state approvals
versus $1,700 per metric ton last year, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Mineral extractors like Compass and US Magnesium have eagerly eyed lithium’s potential in recent years, even as the lake recedes to record-low, devastating levels and blows...
August 17, 2023
Great Salt Lake Summit emphasizes one snow-heavy winter won’t be enough
Activists and experts from across the state gathered Saturday to discuss problems facing the Great Salt Lake after a historic winter. The People’s Great Salt Lake Summit, hosted at Salt Lake City Community College’s Miller Campus in Sandy, welcomed...
July 19, 2023
US Magnesium plans to challenge study naming them as major polluter
SALT LAKE CITY — Five months after a study done by The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration named them as a major contributor to the gunk in Utah’s winter inversions, U.S. Magnesium said they plan to challenge those findings. “If you look at...
June 29, 2023
Great Salt Lake dust events, Utah ozone issues get monitoring money
Utah’s pollution problems get a state funding boost to help clear the skies The Utah Air Quality Division’s technical team will begin reviewing strategic locations for the placement of four new dust monitors to capture wind events over the Great Salt...
March 15, 2023
Great Salt Lake bills start to advance in Utah's legislature
SALT LAKE CITY — A series of bills aimed at protecting the Great Salt Lake are advancing in the Utah State Legislature. The House Natural Resources Committee voted unanimously to support House Bill 491, which creates a "Great Salt Lake commissioner" to...
February 23, 2023
New analysis says Great Salt Lake can be saved, but not without great effort, and expense
production of three key Utah minerals, including magnesium, of which the state is North America’s No. 1 producer due to US Magnesium. What price is necessary for the Great Salt Lake? The trade-offs for agriculture, municipal and industrial consumption...
February 9, 2023
Dear Legislature: Here’s what you can do in 2023 to save the Great Salt Lake
year, but companies are on the verge of seeing their profits evaporate along with the lake’s rapidly receding water. US Magnesium is trying to get a permit to extend its intake canals – a proposal that has received a deluge of opposition from the public...
January 3, 2023
Utah DEQ denies US Magnesium’s request to extend water canals deeper into the Great Salt Lake
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pumping water from the imperiled Great Salt Lake has been rejected by the Utah Department of Environmental Quality. US Magnesium needed approval from both the U.S. Army Crops of Engineers and DEQ’s Division of Water Quality to dredge and extend its...
December 29, 2022
Cox issues proclamation cutting off some water diversions to help the Great Salt Lake
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unallocated water. The proclamation will do nothing for existing water consumption, including the pending application of US Magnesium to use 100,000 gallons per minute of lake water," said Denise Cartwright, the group's director. "We need a permanent...
November 18, 2022
New threat to Great Salt Lake? Mineral company wants to extend its canals.
what the shrinking lake doesn’t need. The Great Salt Lake is so low that one of its largest lake-based businesses, US Magnesium, is urgently seeking to extend its intake canals. The company extracts magnesium and other minerals by diverting lake water...
September 7, 2022
N. Utah seeing its worst dust in a decade. Why the drying Great Salt Lake isn’t to blame — yet.
The lakebed has four “hot spots” that are active sources of dust — one in the far northwestern corner, one near the US Magnesium plant on the west shore, one on Bear River Bay, and one on Farmington Bay. “There are enough dust hot spots that, regardless...
May 13, 2022
How the Great Salt Lake soon could be powering your phone, computer and car
sourced from brine Compass already has evaporating in its 55,000 acres of ponds. Across the lake, in Tooele County, US Magnesium has produced its namesake mineral from Great Salt Lake brine for half a century. It’s virtually the only magnesium mine in...
April 17, 2022
The proposed plan to save the Great Salt Lake from drought
A new bill unveiled Tuesday would establish unprecedented guidelines for how Utah should respond to its shrinking Great Salt Lake. Lake Mead, Lake Powell and the Great Salt Lake all hit record lows over the summer and into the fall. But unlike the two...
January 25, 2022
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