Nature's Treasure: Potash Boom In Canada
Nature's Treasure: Potash Boom In Canada
NO AUDIO A modern breakthrough in the discovery and mining of "Potash" occurs in the prairie Provinces of Western Canada. Some 5 billion tons are discovered there. Potassium from Potash is vital to plant and animal life, business, industry and the Space program. LS Several Farmers harvesting wheat from farm fields with combine tractors in Saskatchewan, Canada. CU of Combine tractor mowing down wheat. Combines LS - Exterior shot of a mining company. High Angle Shot - Roof tops and a chimney spewing out pollutants in the hemisphere. Underground miners get around on golf cart like vehicles. CU Side profile of a miner wearing safety glasses, a hard hat with a light. A huge industrial earth drill making new tunnels in the lower mine shafts. Dust and Dirt are flying everywhere. Miners move heavy bigger rocks and sediments with a truck that barely fits in the tunnel. CUS - Raw potash is poured onto a conveyor belt. The conveyor belt than sorts and moves the separated material for cleaning. CUS- Raw 'potash' being cleaned in some kind of cleaning solution. Various shots of the cleaning process. There are a lot of soap suds. MS a mining technician overlooking the mountain like finished product 'potash'. It looks like a rock salt mountain from a distance. LS of a technician climbing up the outdoor storage facility.