Project news

Highfield Resources has completed exploration drill holes at its Vipasca and Sierra del Perdón permit areas in Spain.

Major project status will allow the project to receive additional government support.

Western Potash Corp. is delaying completion of construction for the balance of its Milestone phase 1 project process plant in Saskatchewan, Canada, from July to the end of this year.

Veolia will design and supply two HPD crystallisers: one to grow 32 t of high-purity potassium sulfate crystals every hour, the other to recycle 54 tph of solids to yield the maximum potassium recovery.

The company's production target from the development is 400 000 tpy of muriate of potash over an initial 18-year life.

The Karinga Lakes potash project (KLPP) covers an extensive brine lake system over pastoral land, located approximately 250 km southwest of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, Australia.

The ammonia plant in Ain Sokhna will produce 1320 tpd of ammonia to feed an ammonium nitrate plant in operation in the same industrial facility.

The authorisation is in advance of the EPA’s pending report on the Lake Wells sulfate of potash project's development proposal.

The company has said it expects the shutdown of one of the four ammonia plants at its Trinidad facility to last a minimum of three months.

Hot mining recirculates heated saturated brine from the crystallisation pond into the caverns, and preferentially extracts the dissolved potash in the cavern which returns to the crystallisation pond, while leaving the salt in place underground.

Chambal Fertilizers and Chemicals (CFCL), Gadepan, India, has successfully commissioned a new plant using KBR’s PurifierTM ammonia technology.

In 2Q20 and 3Q20 the company has said it is aiming to finalise binding offtake agreements programme focussing on the Asian (ex China), European and North American markets.

Danakali has provided a quarterly update on the activities and financial position of the company and its Colluli potash project in Eritrea, East Africa.

The company has announced results from recent drilling at the Dougou extension (DX) potash solution mining project in the Republic of Congo.

Under the MOU Highfield would provide Maxisalt up to a total of 500 000 tpy of salt comprising 400 000 t of vacuum salt, a higher value product, and 100 000 t of de-icing salt.