The world is full of mysterious places, you can see high above on Google Earth, but what's really going on down there, and why?
In the middle of "UTAH DESERT" surrounded by sandstone cliffs and red rocks and this scrub and also there are electric blue ponds in the middle of the Utah desert.
You may think about what are they and why they are here.
Someone says that it's a top-secret NASA project and science experiment, but it's not for any experiments. This is here for mining of "POTASH"
The truth about this is far more fascinating. These technicolor pools are full of something that's prized through human history.
They are connected to a firework, George Washington, soap, glass, gunpowder, lots of money, and the scientist name Humphry Davy.
The answer begins when you burn hardwood for ash, put the ash in a pot, and put some water to it. When water gets dissolved, remove the solid part and you will find the solution is slippery, put it in the pan and the water evaporates in the sun and what you're left with is a crystalline substance and its called Pot-Ash
In 1807, Humphry Davy electrodes in Pot-ash and connected to the battery, he observed the tiny metal globules and as they burst through the crust of the Pot-ash they spontaneously caught fire and davy discovered a new element called "POTASSIUM".
Pot-Ash is so important to people for making soap, and its also useful for making glass (glass mostly contains sand and silicon-dioxide, while adding some pot-ash, it gives the ability to reduce the melting point this makes the glass less brittle and easier to work within early furnaces)
And if you take the pot-ash and add bat-guano or manure, the potassium-nitrate also called saltpeter which used in gunpowder and fireworks
In 1790, the newly-independent U.S government issued it's first-ever patent, it was for an improved process for making pot-ash. This is the first patent ever signed in history for Pot-ash. It was signed on July 31, 1790, and signed by President George Washington. This is why pot-ash is important
The demand of pot-ash is so high that across Europe and the eastern U.S, forests were decimated. Unfortunately, it required a huge amount of lumber to create just a small quantity of pot-ash.
Due to lots of deforestation occurs then in 1861 in Germany, they started producing potassium from rocks. It changed everything, Germany established a near-monopoly in the pot-ash supply. At that time they found that the pot-ash act as a perfect fertilizer along with nitrogen and phosphorous, helps crops grows larger and makes them more drought-resistant.
Utah desert became a pot-ash paydirt due to the 1st world war because at that time Germany stops the supply of pot-ash to the world. This is how the Utah desert has these amazing structured blue color-ponds.
The layers that the pot-ash found in is called the paradox formation and it was created by the inland ocean which is present at the site of the Utah desert.
The pot-ash is mined under the surface. What they do at a mine is, pump water from the river deep underground, it goes down 3,990 feet, that is where the potash deposits are. Now the water dissolves the pot-ash salt, so we get a briny solution down here. Then they get forced back up to the surface, where that brine solution is pumped into these ponds. And at the surface the water evaporates into the air, leaving you with that pot-ash that you wanted to get. In the sense, the water molecules are like your little miners to get the pot-ash out. And the mining area is you above the ponds that you are looking at. There are 23 ponds spread over 400 acres. These are evaporation ponds to get pot-ash. There are 2 billion tons of pot-ash in this paradox basin alone, and at an average price of $330 a metric ton, the pot-ash which harvested here could potentially generate billions of dollars. And the amazing thing is the color of these ponds is changing over time. A full, fresh pond is deep blue color, but over time as water evaporates and it get shallower, you will see the green ponds, and as the water gets completely evaporated the white crystalline substance. That is the pot-ash. These pounds appear so blue due to copper sulfate is added to these ponds which makes them deep blue and it absorbs more heat which helps in evaporation.
credit: Shashwat tiwari
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