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Williston salt and potash

February 25, 2010 - 00:00 GMT

KEYWORDS: Dakota Salts , Canada , potash , salt , storage gas , hydrocarbon , electricity

Dakota Salts LLC, focused on the exploitation of large salt deposits in Canada but with a post mining new energy-environmental benefit angle, works on a twofold project: exploration and extraction of salt and potash, and the creation of caverns for the storage of natural gas and other hydrocarbons

The company is focused on the exploitation and utilisation of large salt deposits located along the North Dakota-Canadian border overlying the Williston Basin but with a post mining new energy-environmental benefit angle.

The project is twofold: exploration and extraction of minerals (ie. salt and potash), and the creation of caverns for the storage of natural gas and other hydrocarbons or the storage of compressed air for electricity generation.

Project overview

Once the project has been brought to fruition, Dakota Salts’ plan is to commence with conventional salt and potash mining via solution mining and closed loop evaporation.
This is to result in conventional salt cavern generation and sales of controlled purity variations of vacuum salt.

Potash exploration and exploitation will be conducted as a basin extension offset to the largest potash solution mines in neighbouring Saskatchewan to the north.

This is to be followed by one of two...

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