A few years ago, Crystal Peak Minerals boasted of plans to become a top producer of potash, a valuable mineral used in fertilizers, once it got its operation running on the bed of Utah’s Sevier ...

“Then, we separate the salt and the potash crystals through another flotation process. We just keep reprocessing to maximize our recovery of the potash,” he adds.

Over the 30-year life of the project, potash production could be as high as 372,000 tons a year, worth $232 million at the current price of $625 a ton, according to Crystal Peak CEO John Mansanti.

Potash is potassium-based salt primarily used throughout the world as a fertilizer for crops such as corn, ... Kneeling down, the crust of fused crystals looks like popcorn. From afar, ...

Where it comes from. The potash deposits tucked more than a kilometre beneath Saskatchewan were formed after an inland sea evaporated some 400 million years ago.

Those minerals include salt (sodium chloride) and potash (mostly potassium oxide), which farmers prize as a fertilizer. It’s a critical mineral—the U.S. uses 5.3 million tons annually and ...

Canada’s Crystal Peak Minerals (TSX-V: CPM) has achieved a key milestone for its Sevier Playa potash project in western Utah, ... located about 180 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, ...

Located 120 miles west of Salt Lake City, the 12-by-5 mile terrain of white salt crystals is home to the Bonneville Speedway, an international racetrack for land speed world records. It’s been ...

Because salt is often a by-product of other processes, such as desalination and potash mining, this would put the waste material to good use. Via ArchDaily and THE PLAN Journal Lead image via Pexels ...

The pools themselves are dyed dark blue to absorb and retain heat from the sun. In the hot, dry desert climate, it takes about 300 days for the brine to dry into salt and potash crystals.

Growing pressure to tap Isan’s rich potash reserves. The north-east of Thailand, a region also known as Isan, has a long history of salt-making. Potash was first discovered in the area in the 1970s.