Palo, Saskatchewan

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.

Palo, Saskatchewan
Unincorporated - Hamlet
Palo, Saskatchewan Location of Palo
Coordinates: 52°10′01″N 108°18′05″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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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

• List of communities in Saskatchewan
• Hamlets of Saskatchewan