Press Releases

16/12/2011

Vancouver, December 16th, 2011, Western Potash Corp. (the “Company”) (TSX WPX, FSE: AHE) is pleased to announce the receipt of an updated NI 43-101 Technical Report titled “NI 43-101 Technical Report Summarizing the Preliminary Feasibility Study for a Potash Solution Mine on the Milestone Project (Subsurface Mineral Lease KLSA 008), Saskatchewan.” The Company confirms that this Report has been filed on SEDAR on December 15, 2011.

31/10/2011

NPV10 = $4.14B CAD and IRR = 22.7 %
Annual Production of 2.8 MTY
>40 year mine life

Vancouver, October 31 , 2011 - WESTERN POTASH CORP. , (the “Company”) (TSX: WPX) is pleased to announce the receipt of an independent positive Prefeasibility Study (the “Study”) from AMEC Americas Limited (“AMEC”) on its 100% owned Milestone property in southern Saskatchewan (the “Milestone Project”).  AMEC is a leading international engineering and project management company that currently manages multiple potash expansion projects in Saskatchewan with a capital value of several billion dollars.  AMEC was chosen to carry out the Study because of their technical expertise as engineers and EPCM contractors, as well as their experience in potash mine construction, potash processing and their expertise in producing potash feasibility studies.

04/10/2011

Vancouver BC – Western Potash Corp. (WPX: TSX) (FSE: AHE) (“the Company”) is pleased to announce that Peter L. Miles has agreed to join the Western Potash board of directors.  Mr. Miles brings to the Company more than 25 years of valuable experience in mining exploration management, retail stock brokerage and corporate finance.

Mr. Miles has a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of British Columbia. He was formerly a Vice President of Midland Doherty Inc., Dean Witter Reynolds, and CIBC World Markets. Since leaving the capital market sector in 1999, Mr. Miles has focused on the resource sector where he has used his experience and background to raise significant venture capital for several companies.

11/07/2011

Vancouver, July 11th, 2011 -- Western Potash Corp. (the “Company”) (TSX: WPX, FSE: AHE) is pleased to announce that the common shares of the Company will be listed and posted for trading at the opening on Tuesday, July 12, 2011, on the TSX. The Company is subject to the reporting requirements of Section 501 of the TSX Company Manual.

An application has been granted for the original listing in the Mining category of 188,034,293 common shares of the Company, of which 160,945,183 common shares are issued and outstanding, and 27,089,110 common shares are reserved for issuance.

21/06/2011

Vancouver, June 21, 2011, Western Potash Corp. (the “Company”) (TSX.V: WPX, FSE: AHE) is pleased to announce that it has completed the purchase of a large parcel of surface lands,  advancing the development of the plant site facility for its Milestone potash solution mining project in southern Saskatchewan.

The land acquisition program has now successfully secured over 2,550 acres at the Company’s preferred plant site location.  Securing the plant site location is an important aspect of the Milestone feasibility process as the environmental and regulatory approval processes and project schedules are dependent on it. The site is large enough to house all intended plant site facilities for the contemplated life of the mine.

08/06/2011

Vancouver, June 8, 2011.  Western Potash Corp. (“The Company” or “Western”) (TSX.V: WPX, FSE: AHE) is pleased to announce that the Company has received conditional approval for the listing of its common shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange.  Upon filing and acceptance of the final listing application and related documentation, the Company’s shares will commence trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange and be de-listed from the TSX Venture Exchange.  The Company expects to satisfy all of the necessary conditions and for its shares to begin trading on the TSX in the coming weeks. Upon its listing on the TSX, Western’s common shares will continue to trade under the symbol "WPX".

26/04/2011

Vancouver, April 26, 2011, Western Potash Corp. (the “Company”) (TSX.V: WPX, FSE: AHE) is pleased to announce the receipt of an updated NI 43-101 compliant Mineral Resource Estimate for its Milestone property in southern Saskatchewan.  This updated resource estimate substantially increases the Milestone extractable Potash Resource to 64 million tonnes of Measured Resource (contained KCl), 180 million tonnes of Indicated Resource, and 701 million tonnes of Inferred Resource.  The updated resource estimate at Milestone was prepared by Agapito Associates Inc. (“AAI”) of Grand Junction, Colorado.

21/04/2011

Vancouver, April 21, 2011, Western Potash Corp. (the "Company") (TSX.V: WPX, FSE: AHE) is pleased to announce that 37,306,800 of the company's $0.75 share purchase warrants that were granted in conjunction with financings and share/unit issuances on October 15, October 22 and December 21, 2007 and January 14, 2008 were exercised during the period of October 1, 2010 to April 15, 2011.  The exercise of these warrants adds $27,980,100 to the company's treasury, which has been utilized to develop the Milestone project and will be used to complete the Feasibility process already underway and for general working capital.

22/02/2011

Vancouver, February 18, 2011- WESTERN POTASH CORP., (the “Company”) (TSX Venture: WPX) is pleased to announce that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (“MoU”) with the City of Regina (the “City”) for potential water supply options for the Company’s Milestone Potash Project (“Milestone”). As a result of this MoU, the Company will include new water supply options in its feasibility study process, which underscores the substantial environmental, as well as, economic benefits for both the Company and the City of Regina.

20/01/2011

Vancouver, January 20, 2011- WESTERN POTASH CORP., (the “Company”) (TSX Venture: WPX) is pleased to announce that as part of it’s Feasibility Study Process, two wells will be drilled to collect drill core for geochemical analysis, rock mechanic studies, and dissolution laboratory testing. The Company has executed an agreement with Ensign Drilling Partnership of Calgary, Alberta to complete this drilling. Drilling shall commence immediately.

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