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Bethune Mine

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 Location:
14 km SW from Bethune, Saskatchewan, Canada

  Address:
P.O. Box 178
Bethune
Saskatchewan, Canada
S0G 0H0
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Overview

StageProduction
Mine TypeIn-Situ
Commodities
  • Potash
Mining Method
  • Solution mining
Production Start...
Mine Life42 years (as of Jan 1, 2018)
The K+S Bethune mine is formally known as Legacy Project. The K+S Group’s global strategy, focused on planning for a sustained increase of potash production at its Bethune mine. The final production capacity is intended to grow continuously over the next couple of decades and is currently targeted toward 4 million tonnes per year, effectively doubling the current production output of the operation.


Owners

Source:
CompanyInterestOwnership
K+S Potash Canada GP 100 % Direct
Bethune (Legacy) mine is wholly-owned by K+S Potash Canada.

GP K+S Potash Canada is part of the K+S Group.

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Deposit Type

  • Sedimentary


Summary:


Mining Methods

  • Solution mining


Summary:

The potash deposit in Bethune, Canada contains the mineral potassium (26% potassium chloride content). Mining method is solution mining, in which minerals are dissolved with water. The mineral-rich solution called brine is then extracted from the ground and the minerals are recovered.

In solution mining, freshwater is brought into solvent (salt) rock through a drill hole, therefore creating chambers, or caverns, filled with a water-salt solution. In a subsequent step, the saturated brine is brought to the surface through an additional pipeline.

During the primary mining process, the cavern expands to create an ideal form for commencing secondary mining.

Secondary mining uses exclusively saturated NaCl solution to selectively dissolve residual KCl from existing caverns.

While primary mining is more energy intensive and requires hot water to dissolve the ore, secondary mining utilizes a brine loop set up between the cooling pond and secondary mining caverns, where sodium chloride-saturated brine is injected into the ground. When it comes into contact with a high-grade potash ore, it dissolves potassium chloride and redeposits sodium chloride back underground. The brine that comes out goes through a cooling pond, and as it cools, potassium chloride crystallizes and recoveries with dredges back to our process plant.

To develop production caverns, a number of wells are drilled from surface using directional drilling and spaced ........


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Production:

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All production numbers are expressed as salt.
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Reserves at July 14, 2011:
The Reserves/Resources as at 31th December 2021 at Bethune are unchanged from July 01, 2011.

CategoryTonnage CommodityGrade
Proven & Probable 160 Mt K2O 18 %
Proven & Probable 160 Mt KCl 29 %
Indicated 88 Mt K2O 17 %
Indicated 88 Mt KCl 27 %
Inferred 894 Mt K2O 17 %
Inferred 894 Mt KCl 27 %



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