EDITOR’S CHOICE PROJECTS | ETHIOPIA ALLANA POTASH Within the next three years, TSX-listed potash junior Allana Potash will start contributing to the global potash market when its primary, Ethiopia-based project Danakhil starts producing. And it will be no ordinary potash operation. Thanks to the region’s high temperatures and the deposit’s shallow depth, the mine will be one of the most cost competitive potash operations across the globe WRITES LAURA CORNISH. The mining star on Ethiopia’s horizon IN SHORT The potash sector is embracing Africa. Ethiopia will soon introduce its first producing potash mine thanks to Allana Potash. L ocated within Ethiopia’s north east- ern Danakhil Depression, totalling ap- proximately 312 km², Allana Potash’s (Allana) potash project is a world- class asset with significant development and production potential. “With over 2 billion tonnes of measured and indicated potash resources, lying no more than 100 m below surface, our project is easily one of the most attractive within the New asphalt on the rehabilitated road to Mekele 38 MINING REVIEW AFRICA | JANUARY 2015 global potash sector,” says Allana CEO and president Farhad Abasov. This expansive resource in a shallow lying ore body represents just the start of this project’s appeal. Pleasing project features Allana’s project is situated in Ethiopia, which Abasov believes is one of the most stable countries on the African continent, which