Salt creeping, a phenomenon that occurs in both natural and industrial processes, describes the collection and migration of salt crystals from evaporating solutions onto surfaces. Once they start ...

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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 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 ...

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 ...

SALT LAKE CITY — State regulators have proposed new rules on lithium extraction with an eye toward protecting the shrinking Great Salt Lake. The Utah Division of Forestry, Fire & State Lands has ...

In a major breakthrough for lithium recovery technologies, researchers from the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with ...

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 ...

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 ...