Saskatchewan, Canada potash deposits

For most of the decade prior to 1965, the United States was the world s largest single producer of potash. More than 90% of this production came from mines in New Mexico. As the grades of these deposits lowered and production costs rose, expanding production in Saskatchewan, Canada,... 

The results of a field test on a thin-bedded potash deposit have been reported by Davis and Shock (D3). Kalium Chemicals, Ltd., in Saskatchewan, Canada (M29), a pioneer in the solution mining of potash since 196.5, have been joined by Texas Gulf Sulphur in their Cane Creek property in Utah (C14). 

Fig. 1. Principal salt deposits and dry salt production sites in North America, where H represents the salt deposits and D, x, and Q correspond to evaporated, rock, and solar production sites, respectively. Sites in Canada, Hsted by company name (location), are Alberta, , Canadian (Lindberg) Saskatchewan, , Sifto/Namsco (Unity) and Canadian (BeUe Plaine) Ontario, and x, Sifto/Namsco (Goderich) , Canadian (Windsor) x, Canadian (Ojibway) New Bmnswick, x. Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (Sussex) and Nova Scotia, and x, Canadian (Pugwash) and Mines Seleine (Quebec), and,...

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