Brine：Brine is a solution of salt (especially potassium chloride in potash mine) in water. During potash solution mining, brine is generated when potash is extracted from underground to the surface.
Carnallite：Refers to a hydrated potassium magnesium chloride with formula KMgCl3·6(H2O).
Capital Expenditure: Refers to an expense where the benefit continues over a long period, rather than being exhausted in a short period, such expenditure is of a non-recurring nature and results in the acquisition of permanent assets.
Conventional underground mining: Refers to a mining process involving pits, shafts or tunnels to extract underground minerals and lifted minerals to the surface.
Environment impact: Refers to possible adverse effects caused by a development of mining project or by the release of a substance in the environment.
MOP: Muriate of Potash, another name of Potassium chloride
Permit: Means a permit issued by the Government of Saskatchewan
Potash: Refers to potassium compounds and potassium-bearing materials, the most common is potassium chloride (KCl).
Seismic Survey: Refers to a method of exploration geophysics that uses the principles of seismology to estimate the properties of the Earth’s subsurface from reflected seismic waves.
Solution mining: Refers to a mining process involving pumping heated water through the ore body to dissolve the potash and pumping the resultant brine solution to a processing plant for extraction.
Subsurface mineral: Means all natural mineral salts of boron, calcium, lithium, magnesium, potassium, sodium, bromine, chlorine, fluorine, iodine, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur, and their compounds, occurring more than 60 meters below the surface of the land.
Sylvite: Refers to potassium chloride (KCl) in natural mineral form.