Palo, Saskatchewan

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Palo, Saskatchewan
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Palo, Saskatchewan
Location of Palo
Coordinates: 52°10′01″N108°18′05″W / 52.16681°N 108.30138°W / 52.16681; -108.30138 Coordinates: 52°10′01″N108°18′05″W / 52.16681°N 108.30138°W / 52.16681; -108.30138
Country Canada
Province Saskatchewan
Region West Central
Census division 6
Rural Municipality Rosemount
Post Office Established1923-06-01 (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 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.

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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]

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  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 [ permanent dead link ]
  7. Press release on Potash Mineral Rights Sale Archived 2010-06-17 at the Wayback Machine