Potash resource Vade #126 (mine) in Canada

Production
Thickness	3.3m
Depth	1143m
Status	Active Production
Company	Agrium (2009)
First year	1969
Ore tonnage	121Million tonnes
K₂O tonnage	29.6Million tonnes
Grade of K₂O	24.44% of ore
Data years	to 2009(?)
Data source	Mackintosh (2009)
Estimates of reserves or resources
Ore tonnage	437.7 tot recMillion tonnes
K₂O tonnage	108 tot recMillion tonnes
Grade of K₂O	24.73% of ore
Data source	Mackintosh (2009)

Reference information

Comments

32 km W of Saskatoon; all stated production, reserves, and resources in Patience Lake Mbr.

References

Barry, G.S., 1989, Canadian potash, 1980-2000: Canada Energy, Mines and Resources, 117 p.

Kelley, L., 2001, Industrial minerals in Saskatchewan; An overview of geology, production and prospects, in Dunlop, S., and Simandl, G.J., eds., Industrial minerals in Canada: Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum Special Volume 53, p. 75-83.

Mackintosh, A.D., 2009, Technical report potash mineral reserves and resources, Agrium, Vanscoy Potash operations, Vanscoy, Saskatchewan: Calgary, Agrium, 116 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.