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

  1. 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 .
  2. 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.
  3. 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&sectionID=7601.cfm . 2007-09-11.
  4. 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 .
  5. 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..
  6. http://www.zeoxcorporation.com/cms/Portals/zeoxcorporation.com/Presentations/ZEOX%20CorporateOverview09.pdf ZEROX Corporate Overview
  7. http://www.otishenergyinc.com/newsroom/index.html Press release on Potash Mineral Rights Sale