RE:RE:RE:Happy New Year everyone.The one wild card in Saskatchewan that could affect expanded potash production is the remarkable drought that is being experienced in western Canada. Diefenbaker lake is at record low levels as well as flow in the South Saskatchewan River. The existing potash mines used 90,000,000 cubic meters of water to produce 14,200,000 tonnes of potash in 2020. That is 6.3 cubic meters (or tonnes) of water per tonne of potash. That is a lot of water (1% of nomal flow in the river, or 16, 150 car unit trainloads a day). Lots of talk of water rationing upstream.
Even more need for more efficient mining techniques.