Potash Webinar Series
In this four-part series, SRC experts share key learnings and new developments from their research and experience working with the potash industry across the production cycle – from mining to tailings. Learn about novel technologies, processes, equipment and insights that can help potash operations achieve greater efficiencies.
This series was co-hosted by CIM Magazine.
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SRC Potash Services
SRC provides advanced analytical testing and mineral processing services, as well as research and development for models and discovery and recovery of a wide range of minerals, including potash. We support potash mines in Canada and across the world, including in Australia, Africa, South America and Europe. Our capabilities and expertise extend across the mining life cycle, from exploration, scoping and optimization studies, to pre-and defined feasibility studies, plant commissioning, auditing, decommissioning and mine closures.
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Dr. Jack Zhang is the Director of SRC's REE Division. He has over 20 years of extensive industrial, engineering, operation and research experience. His major areas of focus include the processing of rare earth, uranium, potash and phosphate, rare metals, lithium, industrial minerals, as well as tailings/mine water/effluent treatment.
Peng Luo, PhD, PEng, PGeo, is an R&D Technical Advisor in SRC’s Mining and Energy Division. His main expertise is enhanced oil recovery technologies, carbon storage, interfacial phenomena, petrophysics and geochemistry for conventional light/medium/heavy oil reservoirs and unconventional tight/shale oil reservoirs in the WCSB.
Ruijun Sun is a senior research engineer in SRC's Pipe Flow Technology CentreTM. He has more than 38 years of combined experience in the areas of oil sands process evaluation, oil sands tailings management, mineral slurry pipeline transportation, active clay detection & clay slurry flocculation.
Rob Millar manages SRC Geoanalytical Laboratories. Throughout his 15-year career at SRC, Rob has evaluated and developed multiple Standard Operating Procedures for weighing, digesting and analyzing geological material, including potash, uranium, gold, base metal, rare earths, platinum-group elements and diamond ore.
How Metallurgical Testing Can Improve Potash Processing
Saskatchewan has the largest high-grade potash reserves in the world with relatively simple mineralogy. But potash ores in the other places have more complicated minerology, which poses significant processing challenges for producing high quality products. Learn about new technologies and processes that address a variety of processing challenges.
Break the Code, Not the Rock: Computed Tomography for Potash
X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanning is a non-destructive technique that can analyze large or dense materials, such as minerals containing potash. Learn why CT high-resolution imagery is a valuable input for subsequent studies in geoscience and mineral processing, as well as petroleum engineering.
Working Toward Solving Active Clay Challenges for Mining: Automated, Online Detection
Active clays are swelling clays that don’t agglomerate, settle or consolidate easily when mixed with water. They can cause significant challenges for mining operators by tying up large volumes of water and requiring extra resources for treatment. Learn about an automated, online active clay analyzer being developed at SRC that can help operators achieve better process control, save water and reduce costs for tailings management, as well as reduce tailings volume and footprint.
A Closer Look at Potash Analysis Techniques and Methodologies
SRC’s Geoanalytical Laboratories has a long history in potash research and analysis, including the development of the ISO 17025 accredited Potash Assay method. Although the Potash Assay is a robust analysis method for both exploration and mining companies in Saskatchewan and abroad, some projects have benefitted from further analytical study. Analyzing potash samples with the XRD and QEMSCAN® can provide mineralogy, mineral associations, particle size distribution and mineral abundances.
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