Halite Energy plans to build the underground store on the Wyre Estuary site near Preesall.

BBC: Wyre Estuary gas storage plans by Halite Energy opposed

Previous applications for the site made by Canatxx UK, which has since reformed as Halite Energy, were rejected.

BBC: Wyre Estuary gas storage plans by Halite Energy opposed

Dr Hazen and his team speculate from meteorite and early rock studies that several hundred mineral species, including zircon, quartz, clay and halite salt crystals, formed during this early period of mineral evolution.

ECONOMIST: Minerals