Patent applications have been filed by the Company in Canada and the United States for improvements on various portions of the industry standard solution mining process and for the formulation of anticipated products. These include:

• an improved granulation process to produce uniform size potash pellets;
• the application of directional and horizontal drilling for potash extraction;
• an improved extraction process and recovery of potash and magnesium chloride; and
• a new compaction process to produce moisture resistant granular potash.