Potash Top Stories

Bullish investors add $90bn to top 50 biggest mining companies

Despite the pullback in iron ore and copper prices, the MINING.COM TOP 50 ranking of the world’s most valuable miners made strong gains at the end of the year.

MINING.com Editor | January 11, 2022 | 1:18 pm

Heavy rains force miners to halt operations in southeast Brazil

Vale has partially suspended operations at its Southeastern and Southern…

Reuters | January 10, 2022 | 7:34 am

Norway’s Yara to stop buying potash from Belarus due to sanctions

Western powers accuse Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko of rigging a…

Reuters | January 10, 2022 | 1:51 am

C-suite chaos at world’s top fertilizer company baffles investors

Nutrien is in disarray after losing two chief executive officers…

Bloomberg News | January 7, 2022 | 10:44 am

Nutrien CEO Mayo Schmidt quits less than a year into the job

The world’s largest potash producer, which is launching a global…

Cecilia Jamasmie | January 4, 2022 | 5:35 am

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Gensource Potash bags synergistic Tugaske project in Saskatchewan

Gensource has increased its potash asset base by purchasing an additional 7,244 hectares at C$14.26 per hectare of land directly abutting its Tugaske project in Saskatchewan,

Henry Lazenby | December 21, 2021 | 11:46 am

Anglo American flags major design changes at UK fertilizer project

Anglo will invest a further $700 million in the project, Britain's largest new mine project in decades, to get it off the ground.

Cecilia Jamasmie | December 10, 2021 | 3:56 am

BHP closer to scrapping dual listing after board approval

The world's top miner has been listed in Australia and the UK since 2001, when it merged with Billiton Plc, but wants consolidate the two.

Reuters | December 2, 2021 | 8:33 am

BHP sees need for battery metals more than doubling in 30 years

The world’s no. 1 miner says copper output will need to double and nickel tripled in 30 years to reach decarbonization goals.

Cecilia Jamasmie | November 17, 2021 | 4:00 am

Fertilizer prices rocket to all-time high on tightening supplies

Crop-nutrient prices have been soaring as an energy pinch in Europe makes natural gas, the main feedstock for most nitrogen fertilizer, more costly.

Bloomberg News | November 12, 2021 | 11:44 am

Saskatchewan province adds lithium to mining portfolio

Prairie Lithium has finished drilling the province's first dedicated lithium well, which adds the battery metal to its resource portfolio.

Cecilia Jamasmie | November 12, 2021 | 6:58 am

Vale cashes in on fertilizer boom with $1.3 billion Mosaic stock sale

Brazilian iron ore giant thinks it’s time to cash in on the global fertilizer boom.

Bloomberg News | November 5, 2021 | 8:14 am

Anglo American strategy boss replaces Cutifani as CEO

Duncan Wanblad, 54, will be the first South African to run the company since Tony Trahar stepped down in 2007.

Cecilia Jamasmie | November 3, 2021 | 3:44 am

Mosaic sees massive fertilizer price surge continuing

Fertilizer prices have skyrocketed as soaring natural gas costs have forced some European production plants to halt or curtail production.

Bloomberg News | November 2, 2021 | 8:21 am

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