Potash resource Rocanville #122 (mine) in Canada

Production
Thickness	3m
Depth	968m
Status	Active Production
Company	Potash Corp. (2010)
First year	1971
Ore tonnage	167Million tonnes
K₂O tonnage	40.3Million tonnes
Grade of K₂O	24.1% of ore
Data years	to 2010
Data source	Moore and others (2010d)
Estimates of reserves or resources
Ore tonnage	407 prov+prob, 1514 meas+ind+infMillion tonnes
K₂O tonnage	95.6 prov+prob, 356 meas+ind+infMillion tonnes
Grade of K₂O	23.5, 23.5% of ore
Data source	Moore and others (2010d)

Reference information

Comments

Latitude and longitude are from Alberta Geological Survey; all stated production, reserves, and resources in Esterhazy Mbr.

References

British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 1979, World survey of potash resources (3d ed.): London, British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 138 p.

Moore, G., Danyluk, T.K., Franklin, B., Prugger, A., and VanderMost, A., 2010d, National Instrument 43-101 technical report on Rocanville potash deposit (KLSA-002), Saskatchewan, Canada: Saskatoon, Sask., Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc., 68 p.

Roskill Information Services Ltd., 1989, The economics of potash (2d ed.): London, Roskill Information Services Ltd., 121 p.

Saskatchewan Energy and Mines, 1991, Mineral resources of Saskatchewan: Saskatchewan Energy and Mines Miscellaneous Report 91-5, 76 p.

Smith, M., 1982, Potash; Optimism prevails despite market gloom: Industrial Minerals, no. 176, p. 45-51.

Worsley, Neil, and Fuzesy, Anne, 1979, The potash-bearing members of the Devonian Prairie Evaporite of southeastern Saskatchewan, south of the mining area: Economic Geology, v. 74, no. 2, p. 377-388.