Dakota Salts LLC, based in Denver, is a wholly owned subsidiary of salt and potash explorer Sirius Exploration Plc, UK, and holds mineral leases in excess of 5,000 acres in north-west North Dakota, USA.
The company is focused on the exploitation and utilisation of large salt deposits located along the North Dakota-Canadian border overlying the Williston Basin but with a post mining new energy-environmental benefit angle.
The project is twofold: exploration and extraction of minerals (ie. salt and potash), and the creation of caverns for the storage of natural gas and other hydrocarbons or the storage of compressed air for electricity generation.
Project overview
Once the project has been brought to fruition, Dakota Salts’ plan is to commence with conventional salt and potash mining via solution mining and closed loop evaporation.This is to result in conventional salt cavern generation and sales of controlled purity variations of vacuum salt....