Palo, Saskatchewan | |
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Coordinates: 52°10′01″N 108°18′05″W / 52.16681°N 108.30138°W | |
Country | Canada |
Province | Saskatchewan |
Region | West Central |
Census division | 6 |
Rural Municipality | Rosemount |
Post Office Established | 1923-06-01 (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.
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]