U.S.Magnesium
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lots of hazardous waste-PCB'S&HCB'. Magnesium has been produced at the 4,525-acre site since 1972. US Magnesium, previously called MagCorp, has a total of approximately 375 to 380 employees, according to Tripp. That makes the company, which is owned by billionaire industrialist Ira Rennert’s Renco Group, one of the largest private sector employers in Tooele County.
US Magnesium extracts magnesium chloride from the Great Salt Lake and sells the separated chlorine waste. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Toxics Release Inventory, the company recycled about 252 million pounds of chlorine in 2007, enough to fill about 1,400, 90-ton tankers.
US Magnesium extracts magnesium chloride from the Great Salt Lake and sells the separated chlorine waste. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Toxics Release Inventory, the company recycled about 252 million pounds of chlorine in 2007, enough to fill about 1,400, 90-ton tankers.
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Coordinates: 40°54'56"N 112°43'44"W
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- Intermountain combined cycle power plant 154 km
- Granite Ranch 155 km
- Murphy Ranch 201 km
- Odgers Ranch Indian Reservation 208 km
- Cleveland Ranch 237 km
- Spring Valley Wind Farm 253 km
- Robinson Ranch 260 km
- Kirkeby Ranch 265 km
- Gardner Ranch 303 km
- Stansbury Bay 11 km
- Great Salt Lake 32 km
- Utah Test and Training Range 40 km
- Stansbury Mountains 44 km
- Onaqui Mountains 78 km
- Silver Island 87 km
- Dugway Proving Ground 90 km
- Bonneville Salt Flats 94 km
- Pond system to Extract Potash & Magnesium Coloride from Salt Brine 103 km
- Deep Creek Mountain Range 151 km