Potash

Potash () includes various mined and manufactured salts that contain potassium in water-soluble form. The name derives from pot ash, which refers to plant ashes or wood ash soaked in water in a pot, which was the primary means of manufacturing the product before the Industrial Era. The word "potassium" is derived from "potash".Potash is produced worldwide in amounts exceeding 90 million tonnes (40 million tonnes K2O equivalent) per year, mostly for use in fertilizer. Various kinds of fertilizer-potash constitute the single greatest industrial use of the element potassium in the world. Potassium was first derived in 1807 by electrolysis …

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Canadian Chamber of Commerce · 4 April 2024 English

6 7 Canada Canada released its The Canadian strategy aims to “…increase the supply of responsibly sourced critical minerals and critical minerals list in support the development of domestic and …

established generate revenue. commodities (aluminum, potash, zinc, etc.), speciality minerals and chemicals cobalt, magnesium, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, potash, tin and zinc. 86 Canadian Rare Earth Element Network


Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy · 29 March 2024 English

One of the long-term goals is to develop a set of resources that is Indigenous-led and available to Indigenous communities across the province and the country. [...] To this end, …

business success: food, fuel (uranium), fertilizer (potash), and First Nations. • Des Nedhe used the 1992 environment: food, fuel (uranium), fertilizer (potash), and First Nations. This strategic portfolio is expand its operations to related sectors such as potash and potentially nuclear power generation. Creating business success: food, fuel (uranium), fertilizer (potash), and First Nations. • Des Nedhe used the 1992


CPRC: University of Regina Press · 19 March 2024 English

Saskatchewan’s potash industry management—prioritizing private profit over public interest   A single province in Canada—Saskatchewan—is blessed with a remarkable birthright: 50% of the world’s potash reserves of their natural resources for their people, Saskatchewan has failed to leverage the value of its potash and has given much of it up for an inadequate price.   Billions of dollars of forgone revenue has small number of multinational conglomerates that now own these potash mines. Whether or not the province obtains reasonable value for its potash will determine whether Saskatchewan will be a place of opportunity

successive Saskatchewan governments failed to claim the potash wealth owed to the people of the province.” —DALE financial giveaways, and other deals to the benefit of Potash producers and their shareholders at the expense raises the curtain on the province’s world-class potash industry. Squandered reveals that there is a great great deal of money, power, and policy behind the potash slag heaps that are rapidly replacing grain elevators a trillion-dollar wealth fund. And that is how potash-rich Saskatchewan also had its family silver qui-


SPI: Smart Prosperity Institute · 31 January 2024 English

We also provide an the lack of sufficient labour, and delays in new product overview of the current educational programs available to stu- development brought about by the closures of …

unique to PBP production, while others are the same potash or oil and gas extraction, which have some similar


SPI: Smart Prosperity Institute · 30 January 2024 English

The opinions and interpretations in this publication are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Government of Canada. [...] As the global population is set …

lack of non-renewable resource industries such as potash mining sufficient workers to replace those exiting


Wilson Center Canada · 17 January 2024 English

‘On the Decision to Introduce Martial Law in Poland in 1981’ Two Historians Report to the Commission on Constitutional Oversight of the SEJM of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Paczkowski …

and the October 1960 crisis, see, e.g., Robert A. Potash, The Army & Politics in Argentina, 1945- 1962: pp. 197-199. 30 "floodgates": Montero quoted in Potash, Army & Politics in Argentina, p. 329. 31 Memorandum gov/readingroom/docs/CIA- RDP79T00975A005600210001-6.pdf; Potash, Army & Politics in Argentina, pp. 328-31; Szusterman Sheinin, Argentina and the United States, p. 118; Potash, Army & Politics in Argentina, pp. 308-09, 331; Remembering America. 89 On this crisis, see, e.g., Potash, Army & Politics in Argentina, esp. pp. 338-41


Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy · 4 January 2024 English

2022, and the western region of the country played a significant role, contributing to 98 percent of the overall expansion, as reported by As a consequence, Canada holds the potential …

It has abundant natural resources such as oil, potash, and uranium. nations, including Canada, setting


Canadian Chamber of Commerce · 12 December 2023 English

To see the benefits from the electricity falling to SMEs and consumers, and help the region transition in increased private investments and remain competitive in a net-zero economy. [...] By …

emissions. Many industries in Saskatchewan, such as potash, already have the lowest GHG emission intensity saskchamber.com. 41 Dessanti, 2021. 42 Canadian potash products are made with approximately 50 per cent


MEI: Montreal Economic Institute · 12 December 2023 English

Economic Note examining how to restore investor confidence and ensure that our abundant resources can be transported and exported to where they are needed most

proposed NeeStaNan Utility Corridor, spanning such as potash, wheat, and critical minerals—from Fort Alberta


Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy · 6 December 2023 English

one-fifth in 2022.8 Although the Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan (PCS) was While Saskatchewan mined the same volume of potash in both privatized in 1989,1 the potash itself – like any other mineral – to just 15% of potash sales from the In fact, potash jumped to almost $800 per K2O tonne in 2008 province. [...] From 2017 to 2022, the annual cost of produce 90% of Saskatchewan’s potash from nine mines transporting potash from Rocanville, Allan, Vanscoy, built in the 1960s.20 Since their record profits in the mid- Lanigan, Cory and Patience Lake edged up from US$1.1 billion to 2000s, potash prices have

SASKATCHEWAN MEDIA PRODUCTION Saskatchewan’s Forgone Potash Windfall: Collecting a Fair Public Return By: Erin Saskatchewan potash. Facing economic sanctions, Russia and Saskatchewan has one-third of the world’s potash. This This fertilizer’s Belarus slashed their combined potash production from one-third price doubled in 2022 to an estimated one-fifth in 2022.8 Although the Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan (PCS) was While Saskatchewan Saskatchewan mined the same volume of potash in both privatized in 1989,1 the potash itself – like any other mineral


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