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
Unincorporated - Hamlet
Palo, Saskatchewan
Location of Palo
Coordinates: 52°10′01″N 108°18′05″W
CountryCanada
ProvinceSaskatchewan
RegionWest Central
Census division6
Rural MunicipalityRosemount
Post Office Established1923-06-01 (closed 1968-05-11)
Government
 • Governing bodyRosemount No. 378
 • ReeveA. Ed Egert
 • AdministratorKara Kirilenko
Time zoneCST
Postal code
S0N 2G0
Area code(s)306
HighwaysHighway 14
RailwaysCanadian Pacific Railway
[1][2][3][4]

Industries

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

References
  1. National Archives, Archivia Net. "Post Offices and Postmasters".
  2. Government of Saskatchewan, MRD Home. "Municipal Directory System". Archived from the original on 2012-08-26.
  3. Canadian Textiles Institute. (2005). "CTI Determine your provincial constituency". Archived from the original on 2007-09-11.
  4. Commissioner of Canada Elections, Chief Electoral Officer of Canada (2005). "Elections Canada On-line". Archived from the original on 2007-04-21.
  5. "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.
  6. ZEROX Corporate Overview
  7. Press release on Potash Mineral Rights Sale Archived 2010-06-17 at the Wayback Machine
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