GMCO Willow Creek is located in the family town of Salina, Utah. Our home grown team of local talent supplies all-natural, uniquely mineral rich salt to the livestock, equine, de-icing and hunting communities. Mining this surface extruding block of salt started many generations before out time. Native Americans, Pioneers and wild animals for ages have enriched their quality of life from this very location.

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The Poulson family began mining salt here in the late 1800’s and the tradition continues today through GMCO Willow Creek!

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The purchase of the former "Willow Creek Salt" was made official in November of 2022.  GMCO President Jeremy Henderson and his team are long-time partners and friends of the previous Willow Creek owners. Henderson says, “In this purchase we look forward to partnering with the local communities to better serve customers in the region and will provide jobs and added benefits to the current 25 employees and more to come.”  GMCO Willow Creek will continue producing granular road deicing product, animal nutrition, bentonite for a variety of uses and food grade salt. GMCO is investing in a new infrastructure to improve work life for employees, which will also improve the quality and quantity of products coming out of the mine. 

President Henderson says, “GMCO has high standards with our tag line being ‘Honesty, Integrity, Commitment since 1964’". GMCO Willow Creek, LLC will uphold those same standards.  In addition, we will never forget the vision that previous owner, Jesse Nielsen, had for the mine nor will we forget about the vision and partnership GMCO maintains with the long-time property owner Gerry Poulson.” Nielsen says “I am extremely excited to see how they grow this business in rural Utah and how they will work to provide jobs and competitive wages and benefits to local employees.” 

Expanding the GMCO brand into a new state is not new. GMCO corporation has been headquartered in Rifle, Colorado since 1964 and recently added GMCO Growth Technologies in Hastings, Nebraska. The focus is always to hire locally and invest in surrounding communities.

Nothing demonstrates this family feel better than the picture below. On the day of the purchase of GMCO Willow Creek Salt, new owner Henderson received a handmade quilt from Shauna, the mother of previous owner Nielsen, wishing him success with the new venture.