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SALT LAKE CITY — A tough new audit prepared for Utah legislative leaders finds taxpayers may not be getting all the money they're entitled to when it comes to mineral extraction on the Great Salt Lake ...

In this undated photo, mineral harvesting ponds used by Compass Minerals cover the northeast corner of the Great Salt Lake. Multiple companies pump the mineral-rich water of the lake into shallow ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A pair of rules governing how lithium is extracted from the Great Salt Lake had its first public hearing on Monday. The rules, which will dictate how companies extract the critical ...

The work is the first to directly visualize how salt crystals grow and interact with surfaces underneath a liquid meniscus, something that's been theorized for decades but never actually imaged or ...

The world cannot have enough of the third element on the periodic table. From smartphones and laptops to state-of-the-art EVs, all are powered by lithium batteries. The demand for metal is only going ...

Frames and Novasep have teamed up to deliver the Waste-Free Inhibitor Salt Extraction (WISE) system, which the companies claim is an easier solution to protect new and existing production facilities ...

For centuries, San Francisco's Bay Area has been a center for salt extraction, causing striking, unnatural colors to form. These caught the eye of local photographer Barbara Boissevain, whose new book ...