Palo, Saskatchewan
Palo | |
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Palo Location in Saskatchewan Palo Palo (Canada) | |
| 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 No. 378 |
| 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 |
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Palo is a hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Rosemount No. 378, Saskatchewan, Canada.[5] Palo used to have a Grand Trunk Pacific Railway station, and is near Canadian National Railway's Wainwright Subdivision.[6] Palo is home to the Palo Mine facility on Whiteshore Lake.[7]
Access to the community is from Highway 14. The CN Rail Watrous line runs through Palo and the CPKC Wilke Rail line is nearby. At the mine site, there is an abandoned airfield.
Palo Mine
Palo Mine, also known as Whiteshore Lake Mine, is a sodium sulphate mine with a purity of 98 to 99%. The Whiteshore Lake bed is the mineral source. Sodium sulphate production at the site began in 1934 with an initial resource estimate of 5.9 million tonnes.[8] Whiteshore Lake is a post-glacial, evaporative playa lake.
The Palo Mine is currently owned by the Saskatoon-based Upcycle Minerals Inc.[9] It was formerly owned by Nanostructured Mineral Corporation ("NMC") and ZEOX Corporation (ZEOX). In October 2008, Otish had signed an agreement with Nanostructured Minerals to acquire potash mineral rights in the Palo area.[10]
On March 16, 2026 Upcycle Minerals announced the completion of 50 exploratory drilling holes at the 3,360-acre mining site. The project "was designed to assess sodium sulfate mineralization and provide the basis for a NI 43-101 compliant mineral resource estimate". Core samples from the drilling project encountered layers of crystal beds, brine, and gyttja.[11]
Upcycle Minerals plans on using solar-powered brine mining to extract the minerals from the water, which was the method previously employed at Palo Mine. This is a common method used at other alkali deposits around Saskatchewan.[12]
See also
References
- ^ National Archives, Archivia Net. "Post Offices and Postmasters". Archived from the original on October 6, 2006.
- ^ Government of Saskatchewan, MRD Home. "Municipal Directory System". Archived from the original on August 26, 2012.
- ^ Canadian Textiles Institute. (2005). "CTI Determine your provincial constituency". Archived from the original on September 11, 2007.
- ^ Commissioner of Canada Elections, Chief Electoral Officer of Canada (2005). "Elections Canada On-line". Archived from the original on April 21, 2007.
- ^ "Palo". Canadian Geographical Names Database. Government of Canada. Retrieved March 23, 2026.
- ^ "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. Archived from the original on December 19, 2018. 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.
- ^ "Whiteshore Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada". Mindat. mindat.org and the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy. Retrieved March 23, 2026.
- ^ "Details". Saskatchewan. Government of Saskatchewan. Retrieved March 22, 2026.
- ^ "Alkali Lakes - Sodium Sulfate". Upcycle Minerals Inc. Retrieved March 22, 2026.
- ^ Press release on Potash Mineral Rights Sale Archived 2010-06-17 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Upcycle Minerals Inc. Completes Exploration Drill Program at its Whiteshore Lake Property in Saskatchewan". Cantech Letter. Cantech Communications. March 16, 2026. Retrieved March 22, 2026.
- ^ "Upcycle Minerals Inc. Completes Exploration Drill Program at its Whiteshore Lake Property in Saskatchewan". Cision. CNW Group Ltd. Upcycle Minerals Inc. March 16, 2026. Retrieved March 23, 2026.