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 formations.
History
Before the advent of the modern internal combustio ...
and marketing company based in Canada, with its primary products being
table salt, fine evaporated salt, water conditioning salt, agricultural salt, and highway deicing salt. Sifto Canada is wholly owned by
Compass Minerals.
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
Lake Huron ( ) is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. Hydrology, Hydrologically, it comprises the easterly portion of Lake Michigan–Huron, having the same surface elevation as Lake Michigan, to which it is connected by the , Strait ...
. 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 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, an arm of the Bay of Fundy, and south of the Northumberland Strait. The town sits on a height of land at the eastern boundary of th ...
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.
See also
*
Canadian Salt Company - maker of Windsor Salt and Canadian rival and owned by
Morton Salt of the
United States
References
External links
Sifto Canada
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Mining companies of Canada
Companies based in Mississauga
Salt industry
Marketing companies
Marketing companies of Canada
1866 establishments in Canada
Canadian companies established in 1866