Palo, Saskatchewan Explained
| Official Name: | Palo, Saskatchewan |
| Settlement Type: | Unincorporated - Hamlet |
| Pushpin Map: | Saskatchewan |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Palo |
| Coordinates: | 52.1668°N -108.3014°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Saskatchewan |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | West Central |
| Subdivision Type3: | Census division |
| Subdivision Name3: | 6 |
| Subdivision Type4: | Rural Municipality |
| Subdivision Name4: | Rosemount |
| Established Title: | Post Office Established |
| Established Date: | 1923-06-01 (closed 1968-05-11) |
| Leader Title: | Governing body |
| Leader Name: | Rosemount No. 378 |
| Leader Title1: | Reeve |
| Leader Name1: | A. Ed Egert |
| Leader Title2: | Administrator |
| Leader Name2: | Kara Kirilenko |
| Leader Title3: | MP |
| Leader Title4: | MLA |
| Population As Of: | 2006 |
| Timezone: | CST |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | S0N 2G0 |
| Area Code: | 306 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
| Blank Info: | Highway 14 |
| Blank1 Name: | Railways |
| Blank1 Info: | Canadian Pacific Railway |
| Footnotes: | [1] [2] [3] [4] |
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.
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
Notes and References
- Web site: National Archives . Archivia Net . Post Offices and Postmasters . 2006-10-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20061006045957/http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/post-offices/001001-100.01-e.php . dead .
- Web site: Government of Saskatchewan . MRD Home . Municipal Directory System . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120826153740/http://www.municipal.gov.sk.ca/Programs-Services/Municipal-Directory . 2012-08-26.
- Web site: Canadian Textiles Institute. . CTI Determine your provincial constituency . 2005 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070911025012/http://www.textiles.ca/eng/nonAuthProg/redirect.cfm?path=IssPolContacts§ionID=7601.cfm . 2007-09-11.
- Web site: Commissioner of Canada Elections . Chief Electoral Officer of Canada . Elections Canada On-line . 2005 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070421084430/http://www.elections.ca/home.asp . 2007-04-21 . dead .
- Web site: 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.. August 17, 2012. Canadian Transportation Agency. 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..
- http://www.zeoxcorporation.com/cms/Portals/zeoxcorporation.com/Presentations/ZEOX%20CorporateOverview09.pdf ZEROX Corporate Overview
- http://www.otishenergyinc.com/newsroom/index.html Press release on Potash Mineral Rights Sale
