April 28, 2023

Brazil’s path to potash production in the Amazon

The mine is one of several potential projects which the government hopes will end Brazil's almost complete reliance on imports of the material.

April 25, 2023

Low-tech ammonia production could help slash global CO2 emissions

Researchers have discovered a way to make ammonia with tiny droplets of water and nitrogen from the air.

April 22, 2023

Russian billionaires see wealth rise to over half a trillion dollars

Vladimir Potanin, president and biggest shareholder of Nornickel, was ranked as the second richest in Russia.

April 11, 2023

CHARTS: Mining’s top 50 companies top $1.4 trillion value amid M&A fever 

World’s top 50 stage.mining.companies build on gains in the first quarter of 2023, but remain well below valuations this time last year as M&A fever grips the sector.

April 10, 2023

Brazil Potash presses on with sensitive Amazon project

Legal challenges are mounting to the miner's plans for extracting the fertilizer ingredient from beneath the Amazon rainforest.

March 31, 2023

Danakali sells stake in flagship Colluli potash project in Eritrea

Buyers Sichuan Road and Bridge Group have paid $105 million. A second instalment of $16 million is expected within the next six months

March 29, 2023

Nutrien CEO says fertilizer supply to stay tight in 2023

Shipments out of major exporters Belarus and Russia are still at least partially constrained.

March 10, 2023

BHP inks $188m contracts with First Nations at Jansen potash project in Saskatchewan

The three and a half year contracts will support more than 400 local jobs with over 50% planned to be Indigenous.

March 9, 2023

Three workers die in Spanish potash mine collapse

Two of the dead were students at the Polytechnical University of Catalonia.

March 9, 2023

Phosphorus can be produced in an environmentally friendly way – study

Researchers have reduced the overall carbon footprint for generating white phosphorus by about 50%.