Palo is a hamlet

Hamlet (place)

A hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community. Historically, when a hamlet became large enough to justify building a church, it was then classified as a village...

 in Rosemound Rural Municipality No.378

Rosemount No. 378, Saskatchewan

Rosemount No. 378 is a rural municipality in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, located in the Census Division 12 a part of SARM Division 6. The seat of the municipality is located in the Village of Landis.-Demographics:...

, Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of . Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota....

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. Palo used to have a Grand Trunk Pacific Railway station. Palo is still home to the Palo mine facility.

Industries

The Palo Mine is owned by Nanostructued Minerals and supplies sodium sulphate with a purity of 98 to 99%. Nanostructued minerals is 51% owned by Logician Minerals of Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

 while ZEOX of Canada owns 49% and operates the facility. The Whitehorse Lake bed is the mineral source.

In October 2008, Otish signed an agreement with Nanostructued Minerals to acquire potash mineral rights in the Palo area.

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