{"id":96,"date":"2024-05-06T08:25:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T08:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gecko.na\/?page_id=96"},"modified":"2025-08-11T13:52:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:52:35","slug":"gecko-salt-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gecko.na\/index.php\/gecko-salt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gecko Salt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-179\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/gecko.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Salt-5-min-1-scaled.jpg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gecko.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Salt-5-min-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/gecko.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Salt-5-min-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gecko.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Salt-5-min-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gecko.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Salt-5-min-1-2000x1500.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\"><strong>Gecko Salt<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Location<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Located at Cape Cross<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>120 km North of Swakopmund<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>160 km from nearest port (Walvis Bay)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>GPS coordinates 14.036, -21.803<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Resource and Reserves<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Salt Pan contains &gt; 330 million tons of natural rock salt<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gecko has > 55 million tons (EPL 4167 and ML 210)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>96% NaCl<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Low MgO<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Crystallization rate of \u00b1 17 cm\/year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Production<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The envisaged production process comprises of the controlled leaching of the natural salt deposit and subsequent re-crystallization from the saturated brine.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No pumping is required as the process takes advantage of the naturally occurring brine aquifer within the Cape Cross salt deposit.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gecko Salt aims at producing 1 million tpa of chemical-grade salt<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The salt will be trucked to the Port of Walvis Bay.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Noteworthy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Renewable resource<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Solar salt<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No pumping required<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/gecko.na\/index.php\/our-comapnies\/\">Back to Companies<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location Resource and Reserves Production Noteworthy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-96","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecko.na\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecko.na\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecko.na\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecko.na\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecko.na\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/gecko.na\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":704,"href":"https:\/\/gecko.na\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96\/revisions\/704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecko.na\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}