Sulphur prices spike, traditional fertilizer makers struggle

Over the last decade economic events or environmental issues came out as top risks to the world according to the annual WEF survey. Not this year.

The goal is to facilitate the mining, production and distribution of the fertilizer in Eastern and Southern Africa.

Mining and logging was the big exception in Friday's payroll numbers with 18,000 jobs lost in May, the worst month since the global financial crisis.

This is not the first time the company’s rights for its Amazonas project have been at risk of being revoked for failure of tax payments.

They shed $156 billion in market value last year, or about 16% of their combined worth, according to PwC.

To the non-expert eye they may seem a set of mirages, but these turquoise-purple-pink visions are what ground-level potash ponds look like near Arches National Park.

As Brazil’s Vale SA figures out what to do with its fertilizer business, the mining giant is thought to be testing the waters on a potential sale, according to people familiar with the matter.

After being practically absent from the Indian market for two years, the Russian firm has signed a three-year supply contract with IPL.

Mining equities didn’t fare very well in Ernst & Young's most recent Canadian Mining Eye report.