Compass Minerals Potash Plant, Utah

A canal system, including the unique, subaqueous Behrens Trench, brings brine from Clyman Bay, on the other side of the Great Salt Lake, as well as from the older and larger pond complex at Bear River Bay, to this potash plant which has been operating here since the late 1960s. Inside it is processed into sulfate of potash, a form of potash fertilizer that is used on high value crops, like fruits and nuts. Much of it is purchased by citrus growers in Florida.  Compass Minerals, based near Kansas City, took over the operation in 2003, and makes around 350,000 tons of sulfate of potash fertilizer here annually. 

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