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Palo, Saskatchewan
Palo is a hamlet in Rosemound Rural Municipality No.378, Saskatchewan, Canada. Palo used to have a Grand Trunk Pacific Railway station, and is near Canadian National Railway's Wainwright Subdivision.[5] Palo is still home to the Palo mine facility.
Palo, Saskatchewan | |
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Palo, Saskatchewan Location of Palo | |
| Coordinates: 52°10′01″N 108°18′05″W / 52.16681°N 108.30138°W | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Saskatchewan |
| Region | West Central |
| Census division | 6 |
| Rural Municipality | Rosemount |
| Post Office Established | 1923-06-01 (closed 1968-05-11) |
| Government | |
| • Governing body | Rosemount No. 378 |
| • Reeve | A. Ed Egert |
| • Administrator | Kara Kirilenko |
| Time zone | CST |
| Postal code | S0N 2G0 |
| Area code | 306 |
| Highways | Highway 14 |
| Railways | Canadian Pacific Railway |
| [1][2][3][4] | |
Industries Edit
The Palo Mine is owned by Nanostructured Minerals and supplies sodium sulphate with a purity of 98 to 99%. Nanostructured Minerals is 51% owned by Logician Minerals of Hong Kong while ZEOX of Canada owns 49% and operates the facility.[6] The Whitehorse Lake bed is the mineral source.
In October 2008, Otish signed an agreement with Nanostructured Minerals to acquire potash mineral rights in the Palo area.[7]
See also Edit
References Edit
- ^ National Archives, Archivia Net. . Archived from the original on October 6, 2006.
- ^ Government of Saskatchewan, MRD Home. . Archived from the original on August 26, 2012.
- ^ Canadian Textiles Institute. (2005). . Archived from the original on September 11, 2007.
- ^ Commissioner of Canada Elections, Chief Electoral Officer of Canada (2005). . Archived from the original on April 21, 2007.
- ^ "Order No. 2012-AGR-283: Agreement between the Canadian National Railway Company and the Rural Municipality of Rosemount No. 378 pursuant to subsection 101(2) of the Canada Transportation Act, S.C., 1996, c. 10, as amended". Canadian Transportation Agency. August 17, 2012. Retrieved August 21, 2012.
On August 3, 2012, the Canadian Transportation Agency (Agency) received a letter from the Canadian National Railway Company filing a copy of an Agreement relating to the reconstruction, maintenance and apportionment of the costs of the road crossing (warning system) at Secondary Highway 656 and mileage 16.36 Wainwright Subdivision, near Palo, in the province of Saskatchewan.
- ^ ZEROX Corporate Overview[permanent dead link]
- ^ Press release on Potash Mineral Rights Sale 2010-06-17 at the Wayback Machine