World’s biggest miner hasn’t given up hope for potash

The result won't surprise many considering potash prices plummeted over the past year.

Study also says that Myanmar is the country where the business environment improved the most last year.

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'2013 is likely to go down as one of the worst years in the history of the fertilizer industry,' the Motley Fool recently wrote.

Predictions of a hard landing in China will not pan out and global emerging market growth will accelerate in 2014 lifting demand for metals and minerals.

While 2013 will go down as the one when gold stop glittering and miners were forced to tighten their belts, our readers favoured a wide range of stories.

The two separate buyers are US-based Westmoreland Coal and a group led by Altius Minerals.

Confidence levels in the sector have improved dramatically over the last 12 months, reaching a two-year high.

The CEO of world number two miner Rio Tinto said the quality of Chinese mining equipment is catching up and in some instances surpassing that of the major US manufacturers.