Intrepid Potash#Moab

There are three sites approximately {{convert|30|mi|km}} East of Carlsbad, New Mexico. The East facility produces sylvite and langbeinite potash, and is capable of fully processing its ore to the storage or shipment stage. The West facility (currently shut down) produced mainly traditional potash, which is shipped by truck to be processed at the North facility for final storage or shipping.

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The Moab or Kane Creek potash mine ({{coord|38|31|25|N|109|39|15|W|}}) is located along the right (northwest) bank of the Colorado River, about 20 miles (30 km) west of Moab, Utah,[https://www.google.com/maps?q=Intrepid+Potash,+Utah+279,+Moab,+UT Intrepid Potash: Moab, Utah], accessed June 2008 at the south end of State Route 279 and the Union Pacific Railroad. The location is known as Potash on U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) topographic maps, and is east of Dead Horse Point State Park and Canyonlands National Park.Google Maps street maps and USGS topographic maps, accessed June 2008 via [http://mapper.acme.com/ ACME Mapper] According to USGS reports, the Paradox Basin contains up to 2.0 billion tons (1.8 billion metric tonnes) of potash, with the primary mine being the one at Kane Creek.{{cite news |publisher=CNN Marketwire |url=https://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0410496.htm |date=2008-06-25 |title=Utah Uranium Corp. Proposes Name Change Reflecting New Opportunities}}{{Dead link|date=April 2019|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}} (press release from Utah Uranium Corporation)

The plant was built by the Texas Gulf Sulphur Company in the early 1960s,{{cite news |publisher=New York Times |title=Texas Gulf Sulphur Plans Big Utah Potash Project |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1960/09/27/archives/texas-gulf-sulphur-plans-big-utah-potash-project.html |date=1960-09-27 |page=49 |access-date=2024-08-20}} opening in 1963 as a conventional underground mine.{{cite news |publisher=Los Angeles Times |title=Potash Mine to Open in Utah |date=1963-04-28 |page=H7}} Later that year, an explosion trapped 25 miners,{{cite news |publisher=New York Times |title=Mine Blast Traps 25 at 2,700 Feet |date=1963-08-28 |page=1}} of whom only seven were able to survive, by building a barricade to trap fresh air.{{cite magazine |magazine=Time Magazine |title=Start of a Legend? |date=1963-09-06 |url=https://time.com/archive/6808067/pennsylvania-start-of-a-legend/ |access-date=2024-08-20}}{{cite web |last=Stiles |first=Jim |title=The Disaster at Cane Creek: An Excerpt…by Kymberly Mele |url=https://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/2018/06/04/the-disaster-at-cane-creek-an-excerpt-by-kymberly-mele/ |website=Canyon Country Zephyr |access-date=2024-08-20 |date=2018-06-04}} In 1970, operations were changed to a system that combines solution mining and solar evaporation. River water is pumped into the mine and dissolves the potash, after which the brine solution is pumped to evaporation ponds. Intrepid bought the mine in 2000{{cite news |first=Jason P. |last=Montoya |publisher=Carlsbad Current-Argus |url=https://www.intrepidpotash.com/press/articles/article_07.html |title=Mine gets top safety award |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828171109/http://www.intrepidpotash.com/press/articles/article_07.html |date=2003-12-02 |archive-date=2008-08-28}} from the Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan,{{cite news |publisher=Salt Lake Tribune |title=State of the State |date=2000-03-01 |page=D3}} which had bought Texas Gulf in 1995.{{cite web |url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/dktgq |website=Handbook of Texas Online |title=Texasgulf |first=Merle R. |last=Hudgins |date=1996-02-01 |access-date=2024-08-20}}

The Wendover potash mine is located about 120 miles west of Salt Lake City, Utah, and has been actively used for potash production since 1917. Potash production from natural occurring brines at the Wendover facility dates back to World War I. During the period from 1920 to 1936, a number of unsuccessful attempts were made to commercially produce potash. By 1939, a successful commercial potash operation was achieved and is still in production.{{cite web |url=https://clui.org/ludb/site/intrepid-potash-wendover |title=

Intrepid Potash Wendover, Utah |access-date=2024-08-20}}

In 2015, a law firm associated with former U.S. Senator Norm Coleman started lobbying the U.S. State Department on behalf of Intrepid Potash to increase sanctions against Belarus.{{cite web|url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2024/us-sanctions-lobbying-money-washington-lebanon-venezuela/ |title=A New Washington Influence Industry is Making Millions From Sanctions |date=October 24, 2024 |last1=Stein |first1=Jeff |last2=Cocco |first2=Federica |last3=Whoriskey |first3=Peter |website=The Washington Post |access-date=November 2, 2024 }} In 2021, the United States sanctioned Belarusian potash firms, raising potash prices worldwide. https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/Details.aspx?id=32746 {{cite web |title= Treasury Holds the Belarusian Regime to Account on Anniversary of Fraudulent Election |url=https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0315 |date=August 9, 2021 |publisher=United States Department of the Treasury |access-date=November 2, 2024}}

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