{"id":444597,"date":"2026-01-31T06:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T06:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/444597\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T06:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T06:20:11","slug":"saskatchewan-alumina-deposit-discovery-a-potential-gamechanger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/444597\/","title":{"rendered":"Saskatchewan alumina deposit discovery a \u2018potential gamechanger\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Brand new opportunities could be coming to Saskatchewan after an <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/alumina\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">alumina<\/a> deposit holding an estimated 6.8 billion tonnes was discovered by Canadian Energy Metals corp. (CEM) near Tisdale.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The company calls it one of the largest known deposits on Earth, dubbing it \u201cProject Thor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Premier <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/scott-moe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Moe<\/a> thinks the newly-discovered deposit will have major benefits both for Saskatchewan and the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe global demand for this resource, which is significant today and going to be much more significant in the months and years ahead,\u201d Moe sai.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo have a third of .. that resource present right here in Saskatchewan, that\u2019s a significant discussion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>Alumina is a key component for making aluminum. Production usually starts with bauxite, which is refined into alumina. However, Christoper Hopkins, CEM president and CEO, says using bauxite is an \u2018ugly\u2019 process that can be energy-intensive and create huge waste.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBauxite processing is a dirty business. It creates. Bad side effects in terms of red mud, consumes a lot of energy. The process that we can use on this ore consumes less energy, is far less impactful on the environment,\u201d Premier Moe added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not just the products that we are producing that are significant, but it\u2019s how we are producing those products that are significant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11645353\/catherine-o-hara-death-reports\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769840411_993_9a8f30ed30397fd79edd0e960933eff9c0164282d2884d4a9a20e1d71b9d680a.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tCatherine O\u2019Hara, Canadian actor and \u2018Schitt\u2019s Creek\u2019 star, dead at 71\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11646257\/canadian-military-member-dead-latvia\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769840411_626_Sebastian-Halmagean-horizontal.png\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tCanadian military member has died while deployed in Latvia, Ottawa says\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With Canada having little domestic alumina production, this discovery could position Saskatchewan as a new player in a growing global market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that it\u2019s a real opportunity for, as I say, the community and surrounding area of Tisdale, but also our province, our nation, and for the world to be able to access a product like this from a\u2026 secure and reliable ethical and sustainable trading partner and there aren\u2019t very many countries that meet all of those criteria today,\u201d said Moe.<\/p>\n<p>The next steps in the project are to design and engineer a demonstration plant in Tisdale to evaluate the resource and products, with Premier Scott Moe saying alumina may be referred to as a resource like uranium or potash into the future.<\/p>\n<p>Watch above for more on the announcement from CEM and Premier Moe.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Brand new opportunities could be coming to Saskatchewan after an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[183544,18272,45,49,48,46,50897],"class_list":["post-444597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-alumina","tag-aluminum","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-scott-moe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}