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Potash Corp sprouts 71% Q1 earnings rise

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Number-one fertiliser producer Potash Corp on Thursday reported first-quarter earnings surged 71% from the same time last year to $732-million as demand and prices for its products rose. Demand for potash, particularly from Latin America and...

By: Matthew Hill

28th April 2011

POTASH

Western Potash hikes resources 40% at Sask project, shares climb

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Western Potash on Tuesday said it boosted the resources at the Milestone property in Saskatchewan by 40% to 64-million tons of measured resources and 880-million tons of indicated and inferred. “We are very pleased with the results of this...

By: Matthew Hill

26th April 2011

POTASH

Grizzly starts actively hunting for Alberta potash

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Shares in Grizzly Discoveries jumped 36% after the TSX V-listed junior announced it started exploration work at its Alberta potash project. “We are aggressively pursuing the development of this project given our belief that agricultural...

By: Matthew Hill

25th April 2011

POTASH

Amazon changes name to Verde Potash

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Amazon Mining, a Toronto-based junior, said on Thursday shareholders had given the nod to a name change to Verde Potash. The change, which the company said it was doing to better reflect its focus on fertilisers, will be effective from Tuesday.

By: Matthew Hill

21st April 2011

POTASH

MagIndustries agrees to C$115m bid from Chinese group

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MagIndustries, which owns potash properties in the Republic of Congo, has agreed to a C$115-million takeover offer from Chinese group Evergreen Industries, it said on Wednesday.The C$0,25 a share bid represented a 64% premium to the stock’s...

By: Matthew Hill

20th April 2011

POTASH

Canpotex to build new maintenance facility

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Canadian potash exporting cartel Canpotex on Tuesday unveiled plans to build a C$55-million railcar maintenance shop in Saskatchewan. Construction will start in May and be finished by the third quarter of next year, Canpotex said.

By: Matthew Hill

19th April 2011

POTASH

India's potash 'holiday' could be a bluff

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Was India bluffing in its assertions this week that it was taking a “holiday” from potash imports because of high prices, saying it has enough inventories anyway? Profercy Phosphates & NPKs editor Tom Jago certainly thinks so. “In the...

By: Matthew Hill

13th April 2011

PHOSPHATES

Higher phosphate prices ahead

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Trouble in North Africa and the Middle East, environmental issues in the US and shrinking exports from China mean there could be a “chronic” shortage of phosphates, used as a crop fertiliser, Profercy Phosphates & NPKs editor Tom Jago said on...

By: Matthew Hill

13th April 2011

Topics in these articles

City	Company	Continent	Country
Toronto Brazzaville	Potash Corp Reuters Western Potash Grizzly Discoveries Amazon Evergreen Industries MagIndustries Potash TSC Capital Agrium Canpotex Mosaic Canada Profercy Phosphates & NPKs Mosaic	Latin America	Canada China India Brazil Republic Of Congo Taiwan Peru Saudi Arabia Tunisia United States
Currency	Industry Term	Person	Market Index
USD CAD	Fertiliser Producer Food Production Agricultural Products Solution Mining Wheel Maintenance Services Food Crisis	Bill Doyle Patricio Varas Brian Testo Gerard Munera Rick Mennel Steve Dechka Tom Jago	TSX
Province Or State	Natural Feature	Region
Saskatchewan Alberta Florida	West Coast	West Coast Middle East North Africa