Lanigan

Operations

Mining depth – 1,000 meters
Annual capacity – 3.8 million tonnes KCl
Products – granular, standard and suspension-grade potash

Performance

Significant Events

• An employee died in a vehicle accident at the mine site.
• Completed a $410 million debottlenecking and compaction expansion, which primarily entailed refurbishing a mill that had been idle since the mid-1980s.
• Hired 65 employees and promoted 17 others; the shortage of skilled tradespeople and mining engineers continued to be a challenge.

Community Relations

• Contributed to the Town of Lanigan’s 100th anniversary celebrations in July with a donation, participation in a parade and a potash mining display at the town hall.
• Employees who have children in Grade 9 participated in a Take Your Kids to Work Day in November.
• Hosted an open house celebrating the re-opening of the mill and recognizing 40 years of production at Lanigan. More than 300 employees, family and friends attended.

Community Contributions

• Donated $52,460 to community organizations. Major recipients were Lanigan Centennial celebration, Lanigan Youth Centre, Watrous Rotary Club, Nokomis Fire Department and Viscount Central School.
• Made in-kind contribution of $8,653 to the local community, specifically in providing and maintaining accommodations for the Lanigan locum doctor.
• Sponsored and provided volunteers for three Red Cross blood donor clinics.

Environment

• Continued construction of the shallow fine tailings pond to prepare for a new filtration technique developed after extensive testing at PotashCorp facilities, including Lanigan.
• Raised the west inner dyke to its final elevation and installed a cross dike to divide the pond in two. Construction is expected to be completed in spring 2009.

Local Procurement

• Made local purchases in 2008 totaling $51.2 million, or 72 percent of all expenditures (excluding major expansions, raw materials, energy and transportation).

	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Annual Production (000 tonnes KCl)	2,022.7	2,023.7	1,470.5	1,907.0	2,141.0
Employment
# of employees	346	375	403	441	519
# of female employees	13	17	17	19	22
Gender ratio (% female/total employees)	3.8	4.5	4.2	4.3	4.2
Average tenure (years)	20	19	18	12.9	11.9
Absenteeism rate (% hours absent)	4.9	5.7	6.1	5.6	5.9
Employee training provided (hrs per employee)	50	49	47	42	48
Safety Performance
Lost-time frequency (per 200,000 hrs)	0.4	0.8	0.8	0.7	0.8
Recordable frequency (per 200,000 hrs)	3.4	5.4	3.8	4.8	4.8
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
GHG emissions (000 tonnes)	78.9	84.0	72.6	85.8	95.2
Normalized GHGs (GHGs/tonne production)	0.04	0.04	0.05	0.05	0.04
NPRI Air Pollutants (tonnes)
Nitrogen oxides	66.5	65.2	56.4	46.6	66.8
Carbon monoxide	319.1	198.3	1,237.3	6,489.0	202.4
Particulates (dust)	725.0	853.0	821.0	924.0	1,046.7
Volatile organic compounds	140.5	201.1	140.4	167.7	184.4
Waste to Land (000 tonnes)
Waste salt to storage	3,508	3,460	1,877	2,712	3,285
Clay and fine salt waste	496.3	524.8	375.6	456.0	495.6
Salt in brine injection well	1,342.7	1,428.7	1,677.4	1,442.0	1,022.7
Water Use (000 m3)
Water withdrawn	2,903	2,937	2,479	2,919	3,217
Environmental Expenditures ($ 000)
Operating expenditures	3,381	1,972	1,605	1,922	3,687
Capital expenditures	66	235	29	1,238	2,060
Energy
Energy costs ($ million)	19.7	21.1	16.3	23.9	30.3
Energy use (TJ)	2,344	2,419	2,095	2,562	2,821
Energy efficiency (GJ/tonne production)	1.16	1.20	1.42	1.34	1.32
Procurement
Local purchasing ($ million)	18.5	50	75.6	26.2	51.2
Source: PotashCorp