PROSPECTIVE Sulphate of Potash (SoP) fertiliser producer Keren Paterson is a finalist in the Chamber of Minerals and Energy Western Australia (CME WA) Women in Resources Awards.
Ms Paterson is managing director and chief executive officer of Trigg Mining which has SoP prospects at a chain of salt lakes east of Laverton and further east at Lake Throssell where the most promising potassium concentrations have been discovered.
She is one of four finalists in the Outstanding Women in Resources category of the awards, with the winner to be announced at a CME WA event on March 6.
As previously reported in Farm Weekly, Trigg Mining is one of at least six WA companies hoping to cash in on growing global demand for SoP fertiliser by producing it from potassium-rich brine collected at remote salt lakes.
Outback WA is one of the few places in the world where this is possible.
Two of the companies are scheduled to begin commercial fertiliser production late this year.