Comments by "Bo McGillacutty" (@Mrbfgray) on "ABC News"
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@michaelharrison3046 BTW--I come as 3rd gen mining background, more informed but biased in favor of extractive industries done right
There won't be an open pit or anything spectacular changed about that valley. Nothing much cleaner than simply pumping an extremely salty shallow aquifer that could never be used for anything else, evaporating the water in the sun and wind and extracting a couple components. It's mostly solar powered with incredible efficiency. :D
Those salts are from recurring lakes without outlets, filled and evaporated by climate changes for M's of yrs, massive glacial till/runoff, made lakes far bigger than the Great Lakes at times in recent past Nevada.
As glaciers advance and retreat, repeat, fresh water (always some natural salts in fresh) gradually becomes far saltier than the oceans. Lake may be Yuge but shrinks to the lowest points, again, concentrating the salts. The geology retains the brine indefinitely.
I assume they are dropping the small valley floor a little via the removed brine and the surface will have more salts than it used to...pending the next time ice sheets again level the N. Hemisphere, most recent only ended around 14k yrs ago, yesterday in geologic terms and well within human experience...tangent.
Otherwise it will be more or less the "wasteland" it always was.
Pardon caring on, sheesh.
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