James S. Jones, Inventor, and Assignee: Texas Land and Cattle Company, LLC, Denver, Colorado filed a patent on a method for producing a "liquid ore". The method comprises producing a liquid ore from a well in a geologic formation. The liquid ore comprises at least 250 g/L of total dissolved solids and has a pH of 6 or less. The geologic formation comprises (i) an ancient ocean sedimentary bed, (ii) a breach in the basement rock, (iii) a geothermal gradient through the geologic formation, (iv) a seismographic dim-out within the sedimentary bed, and (v) a circulation of water through the geologic formation.
The ancient ocean sedimentary bed may contain at least one second well that has produced a second liquid ore, the second liquid ore comprising at least 250 g/L of total dissolved solids and having a pH of 6 or less. Also provided are methods for processing a liquid ore to obtain, for example, Solid magnesium carbonate or magnesium metal.
[Notice that in situ mining of uranium is not mentioned, although that method has been used for decades to produced uranium, but also selenium, molybdenum, and other elements, including lithium, potash, and phosphate.]
Also see: http://www.ussmellc.com/index.php/about-us/what-we-do#carbonate
Maybe the time has come to also try Nuclear Assisted Hydrocarbon Production Method:
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/5e/22/d4/ebf1977d77304c/US20100105975A1.pdf
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