Sifto Canada, Sifto Salt, or simply Sifto Salt Canada is a

salt mining Salt mining extracts natural salt deposits from underground. The mined salt is usually in the form of halite (commonly known as rock salt), and extracted from evaporite Formation (geology), formations. History Before the advent of the moder ...

and marketing company based in Canada, with its primary products being

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, fine evaporated salt, water conditioning salt, agricultural salt, and highway deicing salt. Sifto Canada is wholly owned by

Compass Minerals Compass Minerals International, Inc is an American public company that, through its subsidiaries, is a leading producer of minerals, including salt, magnesium chloride and sulfate of potash. Based in Overland Park, Kansas; the company provides ...

. Sifto was founded by Sam Platt who was prospecting for oil in 1866, and instead of oil encountered rock salt in Goderich Harbour on

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. Sifto Canada was formed in 1950 and the company was acquired by the

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chemical company

in the 1990s. The Goderich mine developed into the largest salt mine in Canada and remains a key source of salt for the company.

Facilities

In addition to distribution facilities across the country, Sifto Canada operates the following production facilities: * Rock salt mine in Goderich, Ontario * Mechanical evaporation plant in Unity, Saskatchewan (built in 1949 with a staff of 60) * Mechanical evaporation plant in Goderich, Ontario * Mechanical evaporation plant in

Amherst, Nova Scotia Amherst ( ) is a town in northwestern Nova Scotia, Canada, located at the northeast end of the Cumberland Basin (Canada), Cumberland Basin, an arm of the Bay of Fundy, and south of the Northumberland Strait. The town sits on a height of land a ...

The Goderich salt mine has a production capacity of 9 million tons per year, and produces 7,250,000 tons per year, while the evaporation plants in Goderich, Unity, and Amherst have the capacity to produce a total of more than 470,000 tons. It is the largest underground salt mine in the world.

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