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Vale cashes in on fertiliser boom with $1.3bn Mosaic stock sale

8th November 2021

By: Bloomberg

  

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One of the world’s biggest mining companies thinks it’s time to cash in on the global fertiliser boom.

Brazilian iron-ore and nickel giant Vale sold more than 34-million shares in Mosaic Co. for $1.3-billion, unloading stock received from selling its fertiliser business to the US phosphate producer in 2018. Vale is exiting after the value of Mosaic’s stock more than doubled in the past year in an industrywide rally underpinned by fertilizer shortages and soaring prices of crop nutrients.

The Rio de Janeiro-based miner is selling non-core assets as it sharpens focus on iron and nickel deposits and its recovery from a 2019 tailings dam disaster. The divestment comes in the same week as Mosaic posted disappointing quarterly sales, with analysts warning that elevated fertilizer prices may erode demand.

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