The country of Iraq covers the region known since ancient times as Mesopotamia, a Greek word meaning land between the rivers.. The fertile valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers supported some of the worldâs earliest civilizations.
In Saskatchewan there are two grades of sodium sulphate: the first is a salt cake grade, which is primarily used for wood digestion in the pulp and paper industry; the second is a detergent grade product that is used in detergents, glass, dyes, textiles, tanning, and in the chemical industry.
In Ontario, salt is found along the shores of Lake Huron and Lake Erie, underlying part of Michigan, part of Ohio, and Lakes Huron and Erie. The worldâs largest salt mine, located in Goderich, Ont., and owned by Sifto Canada, mines salt from this deposit.In the Atlantic Provinces large, thick deposits are located beneath New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, part of Newfoundland and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.oday, Compass Minerals has operations throughout North America. In Canada, the Goderich salt mine annually produces 7,250,000 tons of salt. Evaporation plants in Goderich, Ontario; Unity, Saskatchewan; and Amherst, Nova Scotia; produce a total of more than 470,000 tons per year.