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Companies are reviving abandoned oil wells in Arkansas to mine lithium

July 24, 2023 - brine. The attraction is known as the Smackover formation, a geologic trend that runs from Texas to Florida and is rich with saltwater brine. That brine also contains small amounts of lithium, and the companies are hoping to scale up technologies to extract it.

Tetra Technologies is another company planning to extract the chemical bromine from brine in the region. It is studying the feasibility of building a plant that would add thousands ...

Study: California may be home to the world’s largest known lithium deposit

December 07, 2023 -

The Salton Sea, a shallow saltwater lake in Southern California, has been a known hotbed of lithium brine for years. It has been mobbed by corporations big and small looking to take advantage of a potentially lucrative source of lithium that would be cost-effective to produce – all it takes to extract lithium is to dissolve it in the boiling brine water that flows below the lake's southern point.

The recently released study financed by the Department ...

Large-scale geoengineering projects to alter Earth’s climate, once dubbed a “conspiracy theory,” are now expanding globally right out in the open

2 months ago - brine mixture into the sky to create larger, brighter clouds to reflect sunlight back into space. This project is taking place at Southern Cross University in Australia with funding from the government, other universities and various conservation organizations.

Across the world in Israel, a startup called Stardust Solutions is spending $15 million in private funding to blast reflective particles into the sky at high altitudes to try to reduce solar radiation. In the ...

Avoid toxic contaminants like microplastics in salt by switching to Pink Himalayan Salt

7 days ago - brine with dangerous heavy metals like arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury.

These pollutants can enter the salt during the evaporation process.

Manufacturing process

During the processing and refining of salt, contamination can occur from the equipment used or during the addition of anti-caking agents, which may contain impurities. (Related: 8 Reasons to stock up on Himalayan salt, the purest and most mineral-rich salt on Earth.)

Where to ...

Food preservation tips: How to salt meat for your stockpile

January 26, 2023 -

Dry salting or using a salt brine are meat preservation methods that you can use even without electricity, so it's worth learning how to cure meat if you are worried about long-term power outages in your area. (h/t to ModernSurvivalBlog.com)Why use salt to preserve meat?

Salt is used to cure and preserve meat because it inhibits the growth of microorganisms, including those found in meat. Salt preserves meat by drawing out water from the microbial cell by osmosis ...

LITHIUM mining for electric vehicles is incredibly destructive to the environment and about as far from “green” as you can imagine

September 21, 2022 -

There are serious environmental risks to extracting lithium for the production of lithium-ion batteries

When lithium is extracted from salt mines, the miners must drill into the salt flats and pump out a salty, mineral-rich brine. The brine is placed in large pools, so the water can evaporate out. When the brine evaporates, it leaves behind a sludge of potassium, manganese, borax and lithium salts that must be filtered out further. The process pollutes ...

Miracle microbes in the Red Sea? Active compounds from its brinepool microbes have chemotherapeutic effects on certain cancers

April 21, 2020 -

Because of the lack of treatment options for these, researchers are scrambling to find new sources of anti-cancer compounds, which they hope they can develop into potent treatments against aggressive forms of cancer.

In a recent study, researchers from China, Saudi Arabia and South Africa screened microbial species that live in harsh environments -- specifically, different habitats around the brine pools found in the Red Sea -- for secondary metabolites with anti-cancer ...

Unusual foods that you can pickle now, for use in an emergency

February 08, 2019 -

Pickling, one of the oldest methods of food preservation, involves submerging your food of choice in either a salt or vinegar brine to keep it from spoiling.

Here are some of the many benefits of pickling your own food:

Brine and vinegar pickling

Controlled fermentation is encouraged in brine pickling, like when you make kimchi or sauerkraut. This allows beneficial bacteria to grow in the mixture and crowd out ...

Israel facing food shortages as Jewish Passover holiday approaches

March 23, 2023 - brine produced as a result of the process that renders poultry fit for consumption under Jewish kosher rules.

Law firm Herzog Fox & Neeman, which represents the slaughterhouses, wrote a letter to Israeli Economic Minister Nir Barkat demanding an immediate resolution to the issue. The firm warned that if left unresolved, the issue could force the slaughterhouses to shut down.

According to Globes, large quantities of salt are needed to render slaughtered livestock ...

How to quickly pickle a variety of veggies

May 21, 2018 - brine. (Related: Stockpiling perishables: How to store fresh fruits and vegetables for the long term.)

Brine is a crucial component of pickling. Brine is the saltwater solution that pickles the vegetables, and it imbues the final product with some important gut-boosting benefits.

While white vinegar is traditionally added to the brine, the recipes below use apple cider vinegar (ACV) because it has strong antiviral properties. ACV ...

Extracts from microbial species in Red Sea brinepools found to have anti-cancer effects

April 17, 2020 -

Based on these findings, the researchers concluded that the active compounds produced by microbes in the Red Sea brine pool can potentially serve as novel anti-cancer agents for the treatment of advanced cancers.

Read the full study at this link.

Journal Reference:

Esau L, Zhang G, Sagar S, Stingl U, Bajic VB, Kaur M. MINING THE DEEP RED-SEA BRINE POOL MICROBIAL COMMUNITY FOR ANTICANCER THERAPEUTICS. BMC Complementary ...

Apartment prepping 101: Pickling vegetables for long-term storage

June 27, 2022 - brine

This basic pickle brine is kept simple so it can be used with virtually any vegetable. For more flavor punch, sway in different vinegars or add additional spices.

Active time: 20 minutes

Total time: 35 minutes, plus cooling time

Ingredients: (Makes 4 ½ cups)

Step 1 – Bring vinegar, sugar, salt, peppercorns, mustard seeds and 2 cups water to a boil in a medium pot over high heat, stirring occasionally....

Fracking contaminates U.S. surface with radioactive waste

July 18, 2014 - naturalnews.com printable article

Fracking contaminates U.S. surface with radioactive waste

Radioactive Marcellus shale being drilled to the surface

Radium-226 levels high in brine brought back to Earth's surface

Could lead to bone cancer

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US lithium mining projects are not eco-friendly

August 02, 2021 - brine is critical for meeting increasing demand

Lithium is an extremely valuable mineral because its properties are suitable for making durable yet lightweight batteries. But blowing up mountains isn't the only way to extract it, as environmental groups have argued.

A cleaner and more sustainable option for obtaining lithium is extracting it from salt lake brine. Investors have been promoting the Salton Sea, California's largest lake, for this very purpose....

Crunchy, tangy and good for your gut: 4 Health benefits of pickles, a fermented food

October 21, 2019 -

Fast facts: Fermented pickles

People often associate the word pickles with cucumbers, which are often soaked in a vinegar solution. However, there are many types of pickled foods, especially fermented pickles. Most fermented foods count as fermented pickles because they undergo the same process of preservation in brine. Common examples of fermented pickles include sauerkraut, traditional dill pickles, and kimchi. (Related: Make your own fermented probiotic dense foods....

Food storage 101: DIY pickling tips and tricks

January 16, 2020 - brine, which prevents harmful bacteria from growing. Considered one of the oldest forms of food preservation, this process is a fantastic way to extend the shelf life of any fresh produce, especially if you plan on stocking up for the winter with summer vegetables or vice versa. In fact, almost any produce can be pickled, as long as you know how to do it properly. (h/t to PrimalSurvivor.net)

Why pickle your produce?

Pickling is an excellent way to preserve food. Studies ...

Stunning NASA discoveries suggest Ceres is an ocean world percolating with briny waters from its interior

September 26, 2020 - brine reservoirs underneath the Occator Crater, which bubble up to the surface like lava through the fissures created when Ceres was bombarded by a meteorite. That collision also gave rise to these reservoirs.

“The impact heat subsided after a few million years,” said Raymond, “[However], the impact also created large fractures that could reach the deep, long-lived reservoir, allowing brine to continue percolating to the surface.”

The presence ...

Two traditional African medicines observed to kill cancer cells – study

September 02, 2018 - brine shrimp lethality assay (BSLA), a test that determines the toxicity of a substance based on how effectively it kills brine shrimps.

Rhabdomyosarcoma is a type of cancer that affects the soft tissue and is known to affect people below 20 years old. It rarely occurs in the U.S. (about five cases per million children in a year), but in the researchers' home country, it is one of the leading cause of death among children.

The researchers discovered ...

Injecting toxic wastewater into shallow soil primary driver for earthquakes in Texas – study

August 02, 2021 -

Researchers explained that wastewater injection increases the crustal stresses acting on the faults beneath the Delaware Basin, a layer of rock underneath West Texas and New Mexico. Once enough stress accumulated, the faults would rupture, causing an earthquake.Exploring how shallow wastewater injection triggers earthquakes

Drillers dispose of brine, a toxic wastewater byproduct of oil and gas production, by depositing it through injection wells into porous underground ...

Climate and pollution: De-icing salt has increased salt concentrations in lakes and waterways as much as a hundredfold in the last 50 years

October 12, 2018 - brine and, in a county in Wisconsin, cheese brine. (Related: Cities consider switching from corrosive salt to natural beet juice for de-icing roads.)

Other natural alternatives to road salt include organic waste. Scientists from Wageningen University & Research are studying calcium magnesium acetate, which, while expensive, is a more efficient de-icer. The acetate, a byproduct of the fermentation of certain bacteria, comes from organic waste like roadside ...