Wouldn't it be nice if all the brilliant scientific minds atGensource, Beechy, Buffalo / Continental, and Evolution got together and figured out a winning formula for this novel horizontal selective solution mining process conundrum.
The mountains of salt tailings from conventional mines are burying parts of Saskatchewan, with no real remediation plans to deal with it. Has anything really changed since this was written?
https://www.asrs.us/Publications/Conference-Proceedings/1989/0543-Hart.pdf Saskatchewan is absolutely loaded with amazing geologists, chemists, and other accomplished scientific minds, but being the first seems to have driven a wedge in that brain trust.
Enough years have passed promoting how great this wonderful new process could be for the planet, and it's long overdue that a consortium gets together and builds a real time economicaly viable proof of concept mine incorporating all the green tech that makes this novel mining technique so exciting including such a small environmental impact.
Looking forward to that day as everyone wins including mother nature, as she is unfortunately a bit cranky right now!