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A banner promoting the K+S Legacy Project, a new potash mine to be built just north of Moose Jaw. (Photo: DiscoverMooseJaw.com)

 

Any time $3.25-billion is mentioned, people have a tendency to pay attention and the international business community, the provincial government and local residents' eyes will all be on the north side of Buffalo Pound over the next few years thanks to that sizable investment.

This week marked the official start to the Legacy Project by K+S Potash out of Germany.

The new mine, which is expected to ship it's first bit of potash in 2015, would fall in Thunder Creek MLA Lyle Stewart's riding and he's very pleased to see the project go ahead.

"I think this will be huge for Moose Jaw and my consistuency of Thunder Creek," said Stewart.  "During construction there will be up to a thousand people on site and when the mine gets into the productive phase, there will be over 300 permanent production jobs.

K+S has promised good paying jobs and is calling Moose Jaw their hub for operations.

Stewart says he was confident this day would come, "With the locals in the area, they've seen so much construction that the jitters have been gone for most of the summer. They are spending a lot of money leveling ground and building roads."

Full on construction is expected to start in the spring with the first shipment of potash in 2015.