Florida firm plans to mine brine waste by reviving El Paso plant
A Houston company’s failed, multimillion-dollar project to mine minerals and water from brine waste from El Paso Water’s desalination plant is being revived by a Florida company. Critical Materials Corp., or CMC, of Jacksonville, Florida, in December paid between $5 million to $6 million to buy the never-opened brine treatment plant and its equipment located next to the Kay Bailey Hutchison Desalination Plant in East El Paso. It’s evaluating what needs to be done, but hopes to have it running by the end of the year, said Steve McArthur, CEO of the 2-year-old company. “Water treatment...