• Saskatchewan supplies one-third of world demand for potash.
• Saskatchewan is the world’s largest uranium producer.
• Saskatchewan’s mining industry employs about 20,000 people.
• Total mineral sales in 2006 were a record $3.2 billion.

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According to a survey released in 2011 by the Fraser Institute (survey consisted of views of 500 mining companies across the globe) Saskatchewan is in the top 3 of a list of the world’s most attractive mining jurisdictions.

Miners saw the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Nevada and Saskatchewan as jurisdictions with the most appealing mining policies, but Quebec and Manitoba also made it into the top 10.

The survey includes data on 79 jurisdictions, including sub-national jurisdictions in Canada, the United States and Australia. This year it added Bulgaria, Greenland, Guinea-Conakry, Madagascar, Niger, Romania and Vietnam.