Potash Top Stories

Sirius Minerals buys its way into Brazil

Miner announced a share swap Monday, handing over £27m of stock for a 30 per cent stake in Cibra, Brazil's sixth largest distributor and a subsidiary of the privately held Omimex Group, a Texan oil and gas company.

Financial Times | September 18, 2018 | 3:28 am

German K+S halts production at 2nd site as severe drought drags on

Hattorf is the second site the company has had to…

Cecilia Jamasmie | September 11, 2018 | 3:50 am

Danakali banks on new investor mood to fund Eritrean mine

Fertiliser miner Danakali aims to raise $322 million this year…

Reuters | September 7, 2018 | 10:00 am

Seven new powerhouses to drive mineral demand: EMR exec

"It is not just China."

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | August 29, 2018 | 6:11 pm

China’s Sichuan Road to mine copper in Eritrea starting in 2019

The project, majority owned by a unit of Sichuan Road…

Cecilia Jamasmie | August 24, 2018 | 8:45 am

Sirius Minerals to supply 500,000 tonnes of fertilizer a year to Chinese firm

The offtake deal with Huaken International is for seven years from the moment the York Potash mine is up and running.

Cecilia Jamasmie | December 28, 2015 | 6:10 am

Commodity price slump undercuts mining sector

Chinese demand kept Canadian mines humming - now there's too much supply of metals, minerals.

CBC News | December 28, 2015 | 1:00 am

Study shows 96% of some mining jobs can be automated

INTERACTIVE INFOGRAPHIC: Don't just think truck drivers – 38% of first line mining supervisors' activities can be automated using CURRENT technology.

Frik Els | December 22, 2015 | 4:23 pm

Canada’s Quebec okays $1.2 billion phosphate mine

The open-pit mine – the largest in Canada near an inhabited area – is expected to create 475 construction jobs and 375 permanent positions.

Cecilia Jamasmie | December 22, 2015 | 9:00 am

What to expect for 2016: Top predictions for the mining industry

Will commodities continue to “bump along the bottom” or is a recovery coming by mid-year? The jury is out.

Cecilia Jamasmie | December 22, 2015 | 3:15 am

Caterpillar to pay $74 million after found guilty of stealing trade secrets

England-based supplier Miller UK won a case filed five years ago, in which accused CAT of misusing classified information to produce its own coupler, rather than buying it from them.

Cecilia Jamasmie | December 21, 2015 | 8:10 am

2015: Twilight of the Supercycle

A look back at mining and metals in 2015 through MINING.com's most popular stories of the year.

Frik Els | December 17, 2015 | 3:15 pm

The Chinese scramble to mine Africa

25-fold investment jump in less than a decade. That's how fast China's gaining control over Africa’s mining industry. And Beijing's only pushing harder now.

Vladimir Basov | December 15, 2015 | 1:55 pm

A Belarus wildcard is shaking up the global market for potash

In the massive Soligorsk mine, workers 2,000 feet below ground are drilling at seams of pinkish rock and rattling a $20 billion commodity market.

Wall Street Journal Online | December 15, 2015 | 8:42 am

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