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Sifto was founded by Sam Platt who was prospecting for oil in 1866, and instead of oil encountered rock salt in Goderich Harbour on Lake Huron. Sifto Canada was formed in 1950 and the company was acquired by the United States chemical company Compass Minerals in the 1990s. The Goderich mine developed into the largest salt mine in Canada and ...
File:2018-07-14 019 Sifto Salt Mine, Goderich ON Canada.jpg. ... Sifto Canada salt mine and processing plant at the harbor in Goderich, Ontario Canada on July 19 ...
Goderich (/ ˈ ɡ ɒ d r ɪ tʃ, ˈ ɡ ɒ d ə r ɪ tʃ / GOD-rich or GOD-ə-rich) is a town in the Canadian province of Ontario and is the county seat of Huron County.The town was founded by John Galt and William "Tiger" Dunlop of the Canada Company in 1827. [2]
Compass Minerals Announces New Contract with Union, Ending Strike at its Goderich, Ontario, Salt Mine OVERLAND PARK, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Sifto Canada Corp., a subsidiary of Compass Minerals ...
This is a list of mines in the Canadian province of Ontario and includes both operating and closed mines. ... Geco Mine; Goderich Salt Mines – Sifto Canada; Golden ...
Compass Minerals is a leading producer of mechanically evaporated salt in North America. It operates mechanical evaporation salt facilities in Lyons, Kansas (annual capacity 450,000 tons), Unity, Saskatchewan (160,000 tons); Goderich, Ontario (130,000 tons); and Amherst, Nova Scotia (130,000 tons).
(Reuters) -Orla Mining will buy the Musselwhite Gold Mine in Ontario from Newmont in a deal valued at $850 million that will help more than double its production of the precious metal, the ...
He subsequently developed a salt extraction business, using an evaporation process. This discovery inspired the development of several salt extraction operations in the immediate area, eventually culminating in the opening of the Sifto Salt mine in nearby Goderich, currently (2007) the third largest salt producer in the world.