Salt Lake Potash: environmental approach
SALT Lake Potash has begun construction on the country’s first commercial scale on-lake Sulphate of Potash (SOP) evaporation ponds. The ASX-listed company, along with about half a dozen other groups, is seeking to pioneer the production of SOP from Western Australian salt lakes. It has received approval from the WA Department of Water and Environmental Regulation, clearing the way for construction of the initial Lake Way Ponds near the northern goldfields town of Wiluna to begin, as well as the dewatering of the Williamson Pit. The lake is one of nine in the portfolio of lakes owned by the company, which aims to establish a highly profitable, globally significant fertiliser business in which sustainability is treated as an absolute priority.…