{"id":851682,"date":"2026-08-09T10:16:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T10:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/851682\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T10:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T10:16:17","slug":"leonardite-extraction-occurring-near-la-ronge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/851682\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonardite extraction occurring near La Ronge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6fad8dff-6d6b-4dee-b11e-2331635a30d5-2-scaled.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Leonardite is used with agricultural fertilizer. (Image Credit: Submitted photo\/Raymond Poti\u00e9)<\/p>\n<p>By Derek Cornet<\/p>\n<p>economic activity <\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tAug 8, 2026 | 2:30 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Leonardite is currently being extracted by Wapaw Bay Resources along the southern shore of Wapawekka Lake. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to company founder Raymond Poti\u00e9, who operates the business with his brothers\u00a0Alphonse Poti\u00e9 and Philippe Poti\u00e9. Poti\u00e9 discovered the leonardite\u00a0seam\u00a0in 1999, it was staked in 2000 and a drilling program commenced in the years following. The site was cleared of timber in 2007 and an initial quarrying operation occurred in that same year. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 quarrying will be confined to seven hectares and about 200 tons of ore will be extracted. The product, which is used in agricultural fertilizer, will be packed into one-metric ton bags and hauled to a processing plant in Craik.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe take out the overburden and then we use it to backfill the original pit and then the next time we come we will use overburden to backfill [another] pit and so on. This will go on for a number of years whenever we need it,\u201d Poti\u00e9 explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leonardite is used with agricultural fertilizer. (Image Credit: Submitted photo\/Raymond Poti\u00e9) By Derek Cornet economic activity Aug 8,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-851682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851682","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=851682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}