Arcadium shareholders approve sale to Rio Tinto
Shares of Arcadium Lithium rose about 7% in extended trading after the company said that about 98% of its shareholders had voted in favor of the sale.
Twenty miners are trapped underground due to a fire at PotashCorp’s Rocanville mine in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, about 230 kilometres east of Regina.
The fire was reported at 1:56 a.m. while 29 workers were underground, according to an e-mailed statement from PotashCorp (NYSE & TSX:POT). Nine miners ahve already been rescued, but it is unclear how deep the other workers are, or whether they are all together or in separate locations within the mine