Morton Salt Grantsville Facility, Utah

This Morton plant employs 130 people and makes industrial grade and table salt from water in the lake. It is one of three salt plants located on the edge of the Great Salt Lake, and the only one that hasn’t changed its name and ownership several times in the last several decades, though it has changed location. It was established on the Great Salt Lake as the Morton Salt Company in 1918, and operated for most of its existence at Saltair, east of the Kennecott copper refinery. In 1991, Kennecott bought the old American Salt Company plant at Grantsville, and gave it to Morton, in exchange for the Saltair plant and pond site, which Kennecott needed in order to expand its tailings pile. Morton was pleased to accept the deal and move to the new location as it had serious flooding problems at the Saltair site.