
Nutrien to increase potash production in second half of 2021
The company expects to increase potash production by approximately 500 000 t in the second half of this year.
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The company expects to increase potash production by approximately 500 000 t in the second half of this year.

At last week's St Petersburg International Economic Forum VTB Bank and Acron Group signed a five-year loan agreement for RUB20 billion, which will be used to finance Acron Group’s ongoing operations and capital investments, including ESG expenses.

The timeline for the closure of the K1 and K2 potash mine shafts has been accelerated by nine months due to a recent acceleration of brine inflows.

Ferkenso has signed financing agreements with Gazprombank for the construction of a plant to produce complex mineral fertilizers based on ammonia in Yangiyer, Syrdarya region of Uzbekistan, and a chemical complex to produce complex fertilizers in the Samarkand region of Uzbekistan.

The companies agreed to collaborate in order to ensure timely shipment and transportation of growing volumes of Uralkali products in RusTransKom hopper cars, as well as to identify other potential areas of cooperation.

The UK government funding will be used to develop new modular Carbon Capture and Sequestration units that will accelerate emission producing industries’ ability to capture CO2 and produce zero carbon fertilizers.

The technology has been implemented at the Aurora phosphate facility in North Carolina, US, and allows workers to operate bulldozers safely from a few thousand feet away in an indoor control station.

Arianne Phosphate has reported its operating and financial results for the three-month period ended 31 March 2021.

Kore Potash plc has announced an update on the Dougou Extension Potash Solution Mining Project definitive feasibility study and the recent drilling programme.

The Ohmgebirge potash project in Germany has an Inferred resource of 325 million t grading 13.1% K2O.

C.S.K. Mishra, Suryasikha Samal, Pratik Acharya, Stuti Pragyan Pradhan and Tanushree Moharana, Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, explain why high antioxidant levels in farm soil could minimise the effects of chemical contamination on the biota.

The Mining Authorities of Madrid, Aragón and Navarra are satisfied with the Mining Concession documentation submitted by Highfield for the Muga Potash Project.