Fertilizer project news

Results from the field work, if successful, will underpin a maiden JORC Mineral Resource for the Lake Throssell SOP project.

The project remains on track for first sales of sulfate of potash in the March 2021 quarter.

The main line works are anticipated to take five months to install, which will see works complete in December 2020.

The upcoming programmes, the first to be undertaken since the lifting of Covid-19 travel restrictions, represent the first field-based exploration to be undertaken at the Lake Throssell sulfate of potash project in Western Australia since its discovery late last year.

During construction of a potash mining and processing facility in Solikamsk, Penetron Perm provided a waterproofing solution for the below-grade concrete components in the new buildings.

The Total Resource at the project has increased to 25.37 Mt @ 13 375 mg/L SOP from 18.67 Mt @ 12 388 mg/L.

Haifa Group is planning to invest US$347 million to double its fertilizer production capacity in southern Israel, including the construction of a new ammonia plant.

Acron has sold 10.1% of its shares in the Tatlitsky potash project in Russia to Otkritie Bank.

Based on the positive DFS results, the board of BCI Minerals has approved the company advancing the Mardie salt and potash project towards a final investment decision by early 2021.

A urea revamping project at Nutrien's Augusta nitrogen plant in Georgia, US, has been carried out remotely using Stamicarbon technology.